Passive telecom infrastructure

Passive telecom infrastructure—chiefly, towers—has taken an altogether different role in the last one-and-a-half years. Telecom companies, which rushed to set up towers to cope with the explosion in the number of subscribers, have now realised that it’s better to share the infrastructure. For large players who have a pan-India footprint, it means a new source of revenue, while for those expanding nationwide, it means lower capex and opex, as well as faster rollout of services.