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GTL Infra is registered with the Department of Telecommunications as an Infrastructure Provider in Category I (IP-I). The Company builds, owns, operates and maintains passive network infrastructure on a shared basis in order to cater to the rapidly growing infrastructure needs of cellular telecom operators.
GTL Infra’s core business is providing antenna space on its towers that can accommodate multiple tenants (“co-location”). GTL Infra intends to capitalize on the continuing increase in the use of wireless communication services by actively marketing space available for provisioning on its existing cell sites and selectively developing or acquiring new cell sites that meet its return on investment criteria.
Benefits to Cellular Telecom Operators
- By outsourcing their infrastructure requirements to GTL infra, operators are able to save on capex and opex.
- Availability of ready infrastructure from GTL Infra enables the operators to reduce their time to market
- By outsourcing their infrastructure requirements to GTL Infra, operators are able to focus on their core activities of providing quality service, brand building and customer relationship
- Operating and maintaining the passive infrastructure in the cell sites is a cumbersome task, particularly in rural and semi-urban areas where power supply is intermittent.
- GTL Infra serves as a single window one-stop-shop provider of infrastructure and services to telecom operators by undertaking the full range of responsibilities in building and maintaining the sites.
GIL – One
stop shop for passive telecom infrastructure needs
Site acquisition, site design, equipment
sourcing, material logistics and supply chain management, site
construction, vendor management, labor management, project
management, site operation and maintenance, Site security and
Site uptime are the areas where the operator has to focus today,
though these do not fall into operator’s core business.
GIL provides one-stop-shop for this passive infrastructure
| One stop shop for passive infra |
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Activity |
Operator’s Responsibility |
GIL’s Responsibility |
| Identify the search ring for new site |
X |
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| Find suitable candidates |
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X |
| Site finalization |
X |
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Site acquisition |
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X |
| Legal approvals and permissions |
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X |
| Procurement
of Class A, B and C materials |
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X |
| Site construction |
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X |
| Scheduled
and breakdown maintenance
of passive infra |
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X |
| Security, DG maintenance and Diesel |
|
X |
GIL Offerings
Ground
Based Tower Site External View
Shelter Internal View
Roof Top
Tower Site External View
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