Grameenphone to share infrastructure with Banglalink (Bangladesh)
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: An infrastructure sharing agreement has been signed between Grameenphone and Banglalink as a part of an aggressive strategy to roll out networks in the rural market. Banglalink has also revealed its plans to raise BDT 4.25 billion through a bond issue to fund expansion and upgrades of its network.
Base stations, spectrum, billing platform, switching centres, base station controllers, and fibre-optic access and backbone networks are some of the infrastructure to be shared between the two companies.
Reliance Comm to sign agreements with Airtel, Spice Telecom, Aircel
Reliance Communications is likely to sign infrastructure sharing agreements with Airtel, Spice Telecom and Aircel, reports Economic Times.
With the signing of these agreements, Reliance will be able to install its electronic infrastructure at over 50,000 cell sites across the country under this sharing model.
The Anil Ambani-owned company had recently signed similar agreements with Hutch and Idea Cellular that give it access to over 22,000 cell sites of the two companies. All the five companies will also be able to access RCVL`s infrastructure across the 23 telecom circles of the country.
Cell sites are the physical structures on which all electrical equipment and switches are placed. Up to four operators (irrespective of the technological platform (GSM or CDMA) can jointly share a single cell site, without any operational and radio frequency interference.
Besides, Reliance has also mapped out a two-branched strategy for infrastructure sharing. The first level will entail looking at the ongoing expansion plans and look at possibilities of using shared infrastructure and offering its own infrastructure to other operators.
The company has also completed deployment of the `soft switch` technology, the fundamental building block of next generation networks, in three out of eight GSM circles of its arm, Reliance Telecom. The remaining five circles of Reliance Telecom are also being covered in a phased manner. This technology leads to a convergence-like scenario between the GSM and CDMA networks.
Source- http://www.myiris.com
