Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) to lease out its passive infrastructure, that includes mainly towers, to other telecom companies in semi- urban areas in the country. BSNL has over 60,000 towers and the most of them are in semi-urban areas where private operators have small footprint, so it has decided to lease out those towers with unutilised capacity to the operators.
Aimed at generating more revenue and fully utilising the huge tower base, the agreement would be on bilateral basis. BSNL plans to lease out its Ground Based Towers in circles such as Andaman and Nicobar, Andhra Pradesh Assam, Bihar, Gujarat, Chhatisgarh, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, North East, Orissa, Punjab, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh (East and West), Uttranchal and West Bengal.
