Indus Towers

Indus Towers is an independently managed company offering passive infrastructure services to all telecom operators and other wireless services providers such as broadband service providers. Incorporated in November 2007, Indus Towers Limited has been promoted under a joint venture between entities of Bharti Group including Bharti Infratel Limited (rendering telecom and tower infrastructure services in India under the brand name Airtel and Bharti Infratel Limited respectively) and Vodafone Idea Limited (rendering telecom services under the brand name Vodafone and Idea) to render passive infrastructure services to telecom service providers.[1]

Indus Towers Limited
ISININE121J01017
IndustryTelecommunications
FoundedNovember 2007
Headquarters
DLF Cyber City, Gurgaon
,
India
Number of locations
16 Telecom Circles
Key people
  • Rakesh Bharti Mittal (Chairman)
  • Bimal Dayal (CEO)
RevenueUS$2 Billion
Number of employees
1001-5000
Websiteindustowers.com

With 122,730 towers in 15 circles across the country, Indus has the widest coverage in India and has already achieved 288,013 tenancies, a first in the telecom tower industry globally.[2][3]

Indus Towers was incorporated with an objective to provide shared telecom infrastructure to telecom operators on a non-discriminatory basis.[4]

Indus tower company is also known as Bhartiya infratel which is the largest telecom infrastructure company in the world.

Authority of Indus towers telecommunications says that Accordingly, out of every 5 mobile calls made in India, 3 are done through indus site.

Merger with Bharti Infratel

In 2017, reports suggested that Bharti Infratel, who already owns 42% of Indus Towers, was looking to acquire the 53% stake in Indus Towers,[5] currently owned by Vodacom Group Plc.[6] However, in July, the head of Vodafone stated that they were "actively considering" a float of their stake in Indus Towers. Vodafone went on to deliver a formal mandate to both Bank of America-Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley to finalize buyers.[7][8]

On 25 April 2018, Bharti Infratel and Vodafone Group issued a joint statement announcing the merger of Bharti Infratel and Indus Towers to create the second largest telecom tower company in the world. Under the terms of the agreement, Bharti Infratel will transfer 1,565 of its own shares for each Indus Towers share valuing the latter at $10 billion. Other major shareholders in Indus Towers such as Idea Cellular and Providence Equity Partners would be provided an option to cash out. Bharti Airtel, the parent company of Bharti Infratel, will hold the largest stake in the new merged entity.[9] Prior to the merger, shareholding in Indus Towers was Bharti Infratel (42%), Vodafone Group (42%), Idea Cellular (11.15%) and Providence Equity Partners (4.85%).[10]

The merger is expected to be completed in March 2021.

Website

The website industowers.com attracted 4,82,429 users in the year 2019. Indus Towers website allow users to register there land for mobile tower installation. The website of Indus Towers is designed and developed by Digital Impressions.

References
  1. "Belgium Luxembourg Business Association - New Delhi - Indus Towers: Keeping an all-seeing eye on India's telecom infrastructure". blbanewdelhi.org. Retrieved 25 July 2017.
  2. Sengupta, Devina; Banerjee, Niharika (22 March 2017). "Merger to give Vodafone, Idea edge in divesting Indus Towers stakes". The Economic Times. Retrieved 25 July 2017.
  3. Aulakh, Gulveen (29 November 2016). "Indus Towers to invest Rs 100 crore to set up 500 new sites across India". The Economic Times. Retrieved 25 July 2017.
  4. "TERI and Indus Towers jointly ink MoU on developing innovative renewable energy solutions". The Financial Express. Retrieved 25 July 2017.
  5. "Subscribe to read". Financial Times. Retrieved 25 July 2017. Cite uses generic title (help)
  6. Alexander, George Smith (1 June 2017). "Bharti Infratel said to sound out banks to fund $8 billion Indus Towers deal". livemint.com/. Retrieved 25 July 2017.
  7. Parbat, Kalyan; Kalesh, Baiju (1 July 2017). "Tower sale plan of Vodafone, Idea gathers steam ahead of merger". The Economic Times. Retrieved 25 July 2017.
  8. "Vodafone India-Idea merger on fast track: Individual towers to be sold at the earliest". Business Insider. Retrieved 25 July 2017.
  9. "India's Bharti Infratel, Indus merging to form $14.6 billion..." Reuters. 25 April 2018. Retrieved 29 March 2019.
  10. Sengupta, Devina (9 January 2019). "Bharti Infratel-Indus Towers merger likely to complete in the first quarter of next fiscal". The Economic Times. Retrieved 29 March 2019.


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