Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) is likely to use Reliance Communications? (RCOM) towers and fibre optic cables to provide data services, say news reports.
In addition to towers, RIL will use RCOM?s transmission facilities, such as national and international long distance networks, to carry its data traffic.
The deal will enable RIL to access around 50,000 towers of RCOM. Prior to this, RIL acquired licences to provide nationwide wireless broadband services for Rs 130 billion. RIL, which had invited bids in early 2011 from telecom tower operators for leasing around 26,000 towers for the first phase of its wireless broadband foray, plans to source most of its infrastructure from RCOM.
