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Telecom service provider Uninor has begun the roll-out of the ₹1,200-crore ($200 million) network upgradation project to make it future-ready. The firm had tied up with Huawei earlier in August to take care of the implementation and maintenance of the network dotted with 24,000 base stations across the country.
As part of the deal, Huawei will ‘swap’ all of the 3,305 base stations in the Andhra Pradesh Circle (AP and Telangana) with the ‘future-ready’ equipment.
“The new equipment will help us reduce carbon emissions by at least 30 per cent. It will also mean reduced infrastructure site footprint,” Shrinath Kotian, Circle Business Head (AP), has said.
Addressing a press conference here on Tuesday, he said the modernisation of the network would be completed in three years. “Half of them would be ready by this December or early next year,” he said.
He said the firm would be ready as the data ecosystem evolved in the country. “We see this evolve in the next 2-3 years by when we will be ready,” he said.
Replying to a question on call drops, he said the incidence in the network was well below the permissible limits. “They allow 2 per cent call drops, while are at 1.3-1.4 per cent,” he said.
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