Telecom tower companies will be allowed to share active infrastructure soon
DCC to consider TRAI recommendations on Enhancement of Scope of Infrastructure Providers at next meet Aseem Manchanda
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In a big policy move that will bring in large investments in telecom networks, Digital Communications Commission (DCC) is likely to clear TRAI recommendations on broadening the scope of telecom infrastructure or tower service providers, at its next meeting.
If approved, this will allow sharing of infrastructure between tower companies, infrastructure companies and Internet Service Providers (ISPs), enhancing cost-savings and fostering competition in the space.
It will open the full sector for further investment. Indus Tower, Brookfield, ATC, Tower Vision and Internet services providers like Hathaway and Den networks could be among the beneficiaries of these recommendations.
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India’s Tower and Infrastructure Providers Association (TAIPA) has written to the country’s Department of Telecommunications (DoT), hoping to get speedy implementation of recommendations on infrastructure sharing policy.
In fact, as Indian press reports indicate, TAIPA has been following up on recommendations issued nearly a year ago, in March 2020, when the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) recommended allowing active infrastructure sharing of telecommunications access networks under the IP-1 category. The recommendations were made by the TRAI in a report c
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