Quippo Telecom

QTIL has established significant presence in Indian Telecom Industry as 1st independent tower Rental Company. With its high quality, cost effective & time bound services, QTIL gained exceptional confidence among all the leading as well as new telecom players in the country and proof of concept has been achieved from its customer through site sharing. In last 3 years, QTIL has developed ~5000 towers in 19 circles (Karnataka, UP(W) & Uttaranchal, UP(E), Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Rajasthan, Kolkatta, Rest of Bengal (West Bengal), Bihar & Jharkhand, Assam, North East, Orissa, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Chennai and Maharashtra) & >40% of these are already shared by multiple operators. Currently QTIL is rolling out more than 200 to 300 towers a months, which is likely to go up to 300 - 500 towers in near future.

Quipo Infrastructure Equipment Limited

QTIL became one of the first & perhaps most active partners in the "Project MOST" and takes the pride in upgrading world's first ever multi technology, multi shared tower, used by six operators (4 GSM & 2 CDMA) at Dhansa, New Delhi, under the guidance & support of Cellular Operator Association of India (COAI). Quippo has been involved with DOT from the conceptualization of 'USO Fund Project' for Rural Telephony and gained outstanding confidence from the stakeholders. QTIL is also one of the companies listed with DOT (USOF) for setting up & managing passive infrastructure for rural mobile telephony.

QTIL has a strong support from its stakeholders, Quippo Infrastructure Equipment Ltd. & multi lateral investors like GIC Singapore (owned by Singapore Government), IDFC Private Equity and Oman investment Fund (OIF). Quippo Telecom has recently announced its partnership with Tata Teleservices to create most valuable and largest independent telecom Infrastructure Company in the country. Under the terms of this merger of their passive infrastructure businesses, Tata Teleservices Limited (TTSL) and Quippo Telecom (QTIL) will swap 51 per cent and 49 per cent stake, respectively, in the infrastructure business held by them. The management rights in Wireless-TT Info-Services Limited ( WTTIL )—the tower arm of Tata Teleservices—shall now move over to an independent & professional management run by Quippo Telecom, to make it a truly independent tower operator without being managed by a Telco. The combined entity will, therefore, have a portfolio of over 18,000 towers thereby making it the largest independently managed tower company in India, with an enterprise valuation of approximately Rs 13,000 crore (US $2.6 Billion).

The year of 2007-08 had also been a landmark period in the history of QTIL, as the company gained strong portfolio of towers while expanding service parameters to the mobile operators. Also during the 2006 - 2007, QTIL signed a deal with Spice Communications buying out their telecom tower portfolio in the states of Punjab & Karnataka along with the exclusive rights to rollout for their future requirements. This acquisition alone gave an opportunity to rollout over 12,000 towers in next few years time.

Quippo Telecom has a vision of becoming an end-to-end infrastructure partner to the Telecom World. Having pioneered the concept of “Passive Infrastructure Sharing”, it has already expanded its offerings to include Indoor solutions both for commercial & Residential including triple play (Voice, Video & Data) and Mobile number Portability. The company is also exploring the opportunities for Active Infrastructure sharing, MSC Hosting, data Centre Hosting so that it becomes the first company to give such end to end solution in the market. In short, it will become true strategic and growth partner of the service providers bringing unparalleled benefits of capital, size & scale, technology and the highest service standards. To this extent, it is committing significant investments in the coming fiscal. These resources will be used both for organic & inorganic business growth as well as to fund some of the new initiatives.