INDIA BUSINESS WORLD - OCTOBER 21st - NOVEMBER 15th
- 2007
SU-KAM BAGS RCOM'S RS 100CR TOWER DEAL
Frustrated with high costs and mounting pilferage of fuel, mobile operators are now planning to shift from generators to inverters to power their mobile towers. India's largest inverter company, the New Delhi-based Rs 450-crore Su-Kam Power Systems, has bagged a Rs 100-crore order from mobile operator Reliance Communications to provide power backup to its 12,000-odd mobile towers across India.
Su-Kam CEO Kunwar Sachdev said, "We are eyeing the telecom sector aggressively. According to the deal, we will install inverter sets across 12,000 base stations." Reliance Communications' spokesperson did not comment on the same query.
According to sources, Su-Kam is also working out a similar deal with India's second largest CDMA operator Tata Teleservices, though it could not be verified independently with Tata Teleservices. Employing power gensets at mobile towers poses a fundamental problem for telcos such as Reliance communications, especially in rural areas. The company has to employ a person to maintain the genset and another to carry diesel. Companies also suffer from huge pilferage of fuel in rural areas. To eradicate the problem, most mobile operators also using inverters along with power gensets.
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