Friday, April 25, 2008

BSNL Plans Hiving Off Infrastructure Into A New Co

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd is mulling to hive off its telecom infrastructure into a separate company. BSNL has 32,000 base stations for GSM-based mobile services and another 7,000 for its CDMA services. The company seeks to lease out this infrastructure with private operators, especially the new licence holders who are looking for a quick pan-Indian launch. The move from BSNL is a substantial change of its earlier stance, when it had denied to share its national network with other operators on the grounds that the pan-Indian presence was its unique proposition to compete with the private operators

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