Mumbai: Boston-based American Tower Corporation (ATC) has signed an agreement to buy out 20,000 mobile towers owned by Vodafone India and Idea Cellular for about Rs 7,850 crore ($1.2 billion).
The second phase of BharatNet, the government's ambitious programme
to connect rural India via high speed broadband, with an outlay of Rs
31,000 crore kicked off on Monday.