Thursday, August 11, 2011

About Viom Network birth

Quipo-Wttl the joint venture between the Quippo Telecom  Infrastructure (QTIL) and Tata Teleservices Limited’s Wireless TT Info Services Limited (WTTIL)  its new entity Viom Networks Limited. The new entity resulted after courts approved the de-merger proposal of passive infrastructure of the two partner companies, after which both the companies mutually agreed to merge their passive infrastructure businesses.

The Delhi High Court approved Quippo Telecom Infrastructure Limited's (QTIL) passive infrastructure de-merger, while the Andhra Pradesh High Court approved de-merger of Tata teleservice Limited's (TTSL) passive arm, Wireless TT Info Services Limited (WTTIL).

Viom Networks Limited, the shared passive telecom infrastructure company, will be run by an independent and professionally managed team from Quippo and has new board members.
Board Member and their word in the Start of Voim Quoted below:-

Subhodh Bhargava has been appointed as the first independent chairman of the board, while Arun Kapur is the new chief executive officer (CEO) and Probal Ghosal is the deputy CEO and finance head.

According to Sunil Kanoria, Viom Networks Limited’s director, the concept of passive infrastructure sharing was started in 2005 in India and there was a lot of confusion as well as lack of clarity among the telecom operators.

As of Kanoria  theyStarted with just 50 towers in September 2005, today they have about 37,000 towers and in coming years there will be some more. In the last one year about 20,000 towers have been built across the country which has the highest tenancy ratio of over 2.2 times. And the 37,000
towers has occupancy of over 80,000 tenants,”

Further Kanoria added that the shared passive infrastructure business was started with a small investment of Rs..1 crore and in five years' span the joint venture is valued around Rs..20,000 crore.

Kanoria, the member of Kanoria family, is also the vice chairman of SREI Group, which promoted Quippo Telecom.

“Viom will be a perfect blend of WTTIL, which epitomized corporate governance and Quippo Telecom, which represents one of the most professionally managed companies in the telecom
infrastructure space,” Anil Sardana, Tata Teleservices’ managing director commented.

This partnership will help us leverage the best of both the worlds and further strengthen our leadership position in the industry through the combined synergies of both the organizations,” Sardana added.

so That Viom Network Limited, a joint venture between Tata Teleservices and Quippo, a SREI Group enterprise, is the pioneer in the Shared Passive Telecom Infrastructure industry in India.  The company further strengthened its leadership position with the acquisition of the tower arm of Tata Teleservices (Maharashtra) Limited in early 2010. Viom is an independent entity with over 38,500 towers and around 95,000 tenancies. The company plans to roll-out nearly 20-25,000 additional towers in the next two years while targeting a tenancy ratio of 2.5x. Viom is the strongest player in neutral host Shared In-Building Communication Solutions (IBS) with installations already completed at most of the major airports.(Sources)

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