Telecom infrastructure major Indus Towers, is not only making environment-friendly towers, but also attractive and camouflaged ones in order to change the mindset of people that they emit ‘bad’ radiations.

The company has already started the work on it last year and has erected around 100 such ‘architecture appeal towers’, ‘camouflaged poles’ and ‘camouflaged palm tree’ mobile towers called ‘Aesthetic Sites’ in 50 cities.

Investment planned Over the next one year, Indus plans to set up over 500 such modern mobile towers in 50 cities, in the 15 circles where it is allowed to operate. The company plans to invest around ₹100 crore for the same.

“We have already invested around ₹25 crore in setting up over 100 next-generation mobile towers. They are future ready for projects like smart cities, can be used for street lighting, surveillance, etc. We will be investing ₹100 crore or more for setting up next 500 towers,” Bimal Dayal, Chief Executive Officer, Indus Towers, told reporters here.

Cost of towers On asked about the costs of these new-generation towers, Daya said depending on the requirements or size, prices may vary anywhere between ₹70,000 and ₹25 lakh, while for traditional towers (with iron bars and ladder look), the costs may go up to ₹30 lakh, apart from the rental charges (in commercial or residential areas).

The 100 towers that it already has started include Amritsar, Coimbatore, Gurugram, Hyderabad, Jaipur-Agra Highway, Mysore, Mumbai and New Delhi, he said.

“With our focus on innovation that enables transformation and belief in Design Thinking approach, where we develop a solution, basis customer needs, Aesthetic Sites roll-out is a great testimony in this direction,” he said.

While deploying world-class technologies in telecom infrastructure domain, Indus Towers will continue to build digital highways and play a pivotal role in the government’s focus areas like Smart Cities and Digital India, he added.

‘Green sites’ The company has already focussed on introducing many initiatives and has converted over 55,000 sites into green sites.

To make diesel free sites, the company has installed free cooling units, natural cooling units, solar powered and solar PV leading to energy savings, he added. “These next generation mobile towers have helped us in securing new sites where space is left and cities where it is difficult to get new sites. The ground base required for these towers is about 80-90 per cent less compared to traditional sites,” Sameer Sinha, Chief Sales and Marketing Officer at the company said.

The company is a joint venture between Bharti Airtel, Vodafone India and Idea Cellular. It is world’s largest mobile tower company with 1,21,330 towers. The company operates in 15 of 22 telecom circles in the country.

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