Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd (RJIL), a wholly-owned subsidiary of India’s largest private sector company Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL), has signed a telecom tower-sharing agreement with Tower Vision India.

For the company, controlled by billionaire Mukesh Ambani, this is the fifth tower agreements in the recent past as it gears up to launch 4G services in the country.

8,400 towers Tower Vision India, an independent tower company, has a portfolio of 8,400 towers across the country. Under the agreement, RJIL would utilise the tower infrastructure to launch its services, the company said in a statement.

“We are committed to offer our customers wide coverage of high speed 4G networks. As a consequence, we are continuing to build this through a combination of towers that we are constructing on our own and those that we are renting from quality tower infrastructure partners,” said Sanjay Mashruwala, Managing Director, RJIL. “Our partnership with Tower Vision is another step in this direction,” he added.

Last month, RJIL signed a tower-sharing agreement with independent infrastructure provider ATC India. RJIL will utilise about 11,000 towers under the agreement as it gears up to launch its services across the country.

Similar pacts RJIL had earlier entered into similar agreements with Bharti Infratel, Viom Networks and Reliance Communications. It had also signed an inter-city optical fibre sharing agreement with RCom in April last year as part of a comprehensive framework of business co-operation between the companies.

These agreements, according to industry sources, will help the company provide 4G services on a pan-India basis. The company intends to launch services by October or December this year.

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