India’s largest mobile phone company Bharti Airtel , which expanded operations to 16 African countries last year, is in talks with five leading operators – Etisalat , MTN , France Telecom (Orange), Millicom and Vodafone – for sharing telecoms infrastructure such as towers and fibre in that continent, a top executive said, the Economic Times reports.
Bharti is attempting a model similar to that of Indus Towers in India, which it jointly owns with its competitors – Vodafone Essar and Idea Cellular – and the trio have combined their physical infrastructure assets in this company. Bharti and Vodafone have a 42 per cent stake each in this tower co while is rest is owned by Idea Cellular.
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