\"\"NEW DELHI: Sunil Mittal-driven Bharti and IHS<\/a> Holding, a mobile telecommunications infrastructure provider in Africa inked a deal under which IHS will acquire over 1100 telecoms towers across Zambia and Rwanda under a 10-year renewable contract.
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\nThe agreements in two African countries are however subject to statutory and regulatory approvals.
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\nThe pact will help Airtel to focus on its core business and customers, enable it to de-leverage through debt reduction, and will significantly reduce its on-going capital expenditure on passive infrastructure in two African markets, the telco in a statement said Monday. <\/span><\/span>\n

\n\tThe deal would facilitate IHS to expand its Africa tower footprint to over 21,000 towers across five countries.
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“This agreement will accelerate infrastructure sharing amongst operators and benefit customers in form of affordable tariffs and wider network coverage,” Christian de Faria, MD & CEO – Africa,
Bharti Airtel<\/a> said.
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\n\tIssam Darwish, Executive Vice Chairman and Group CEO of HIS said that they have been engaged with Airtel for many years.
\n\t
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\n\t“Our first buy and lease back transaction with Airtel is an opportunity to expand our East African business bringing IHS’ market leading energy and infrastructure management practices to a wider market,” Darwish added. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n<\/body>","next_sibling":[{"msid":45517743,"title":"Trai may suggest spectrum usage fee on internet service providers","entity_type":"ARTICLE","link":"\/news\/industry\/trai-may-suggest-spectrum-usage-fee-on-internet-service-providers\/45517743","category_name":null,"category_name_seo":"industry"}],"related_content":[],"seoschemas":false,"msid":45519536,"entity_type":"ARTICLE","title":"Airtel sells telecom towers in Zambia, Rwanda","synopsis":"\u200bThe agreements in two African countries are however subject to statutory and regulatory approvals.","titleseo":"industry\/airtel-sells-telecom-towers-in-zambia-rwanda","status":"ACTIVE","authors":[],"Alttitle":{"minfo":""},"artag":false,"artdate":"2014-12-15 12:25:59","lastupd":"2014-12-15 14:57:53","breadcrumbTags":["industry","Sunil Mittal","Bharti Airtel","IHS"],"secinfo":{"seolocation":"industry\/airtel-sells-telecom-towers-in-zambia-rwanda"}}" data-authors="[" "]" data-category-name="Industry" data-category_id="18" data-date="2014-12-15" data-index="article_1">

Airtel销售电信塔在赞比亚,卢旺达

然而在两个非洲国家的协议受到法律和监管机构的批准。

  • 2014年12月15日更新是02:57点
新德里:苏尼尔Mittal-driven Bharti和IHS控股,移动电信基础设施提供者在非洲签了协议,IHS将获得超过1100电信塔在赞比亚和卢旺达10年期可再生合同。

然而在两个非洲国家的协议受到法律和监管机构的批准。

该协议将帮助Airtel专注于其核心业务和客户,使其通过减少债务去杠杆化,并将显著降低其持续的资本支出被动基础设施在两个非洲市场,电信在一份声明中说星期一。

这笔交易将促进IHS扩大非洲塔足迹跨五个国家超过21000塔。

运营商之间“本协议将加速基础设施共享,有利于客户的负担得起的关税和更广泛的网络覆盖,“基督教•德•法利博士和CEO -非洲,Bharti Airtel说。


执行副主席伊达尔维什和他的集团首席执行官表示,他们已经与Airtel很多年了。


“我们第一次买Airtel和回租交易是一个机会来扩大我们的东非业务带来IHS的市场领先的能源和基础设施管理实践更广泛的市场,”达尔维什补充道。

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\"\"NEW DELHI: Sunil Mittal-driven Bharti and IHS<\/a> Holding, a mobile telecommunications infrastructure provider in Africa inked a deal under which IHS will acquire over 1100 telecoms towers across Zambia and Rwanda under a 10-year renewable contract.
\n
\nThe agreements in two African countries are however subject to statutory and regulatory approvals.
\n
\nThe pact will help Airtel to focus on its core business and customers, enable it to de-leverage through debt reduction, and will significantly reduce its on-going capital expenditure on passive infrastructure in two African markets, the telco in a statement said Monday. <\/span><\/span>\n

\n\tThe deal would facilitate IHS to expand its Africa tower footprint to over 21,000 towers across five countries.
\n\t
“This agreement will accelerate infrastructure sharing amongst operators and benefit customers in form of affordable tariffs and wider network coverage,” Christian de Faria, MD & CEO – Africa,
Bharti Airtel<\/a> said.
\n\t
\n\t
\n\tIssam Darwish, Executive Vice Chairman and Group CEO of HIS said that they have been engaged with Airtel for many years.
\n\t
\n\t
\n\t“Our first buy and lease back transaction with Airtel is an opportunity to expand our East African business bringing IHS’ market leading energy and infrastructure management practices to a wider market,” Darwish added. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n<\/body>","next_sibling":[{"msid":45517743,"title":"Trai may suggest spectrum usage fee on internet service providers","entity_type":"ARTICLE","link":"\/news\/industry\/trai-may-suggest-spectrum-usage-fee-on-internet-service-providers\/45517743","category_name":null,"category_name_seo":"industry"}],"related_content":[],"seoschemas":false,"msid":45519536,"entity_type":"ARTICLE","title":"Airtel sells telecom towers in Zambia, Rwanda","synopsis":"\u200bThe agreements in two African countries are however subject to statutory and regulatory approvals.","titleseo":"industry\/airtel-sells-telecom-towers-in-zambia-rwanda","status":"ACTIVE","authors":[],"Alttitle":{"minfo":""},"artag":false,"artdate":"2014-12-15 12:25:59","lastupd":"2014-12-15 14:57:53","breadcrumbTags":["industry","Sunil Mittal","Bharti Airtel","IHS"],"secinfo":{"seolocation":"industry\/airtel-sells-telecom-towers-in-zambia-rwanda"}}" data-news_link="//www.iser-br.com/news/industry/airtel-sells-telecom-towers-in-zambia-rwanda/45519536">