As compared to the last five quarters,Bharti Infratel recorded the maximum gross tower and co-location additions in October-December quarter
Bharti Infratel, a telecom giant in India has recently announced that the company has reached a settlement with four telecom operators that departed from its cell sites before the expiration of their agreements at a payment include the rental of approximately Rs 1,800 crore and one-time charge of Rs 2,000 crore with the total of Rs 3,800 crore.
Akhil Gupta, Chairman, Bharti Infratel stated that during the company’s earnings call.The four operators including Vodafone Idea, Airtel, Telenor and Tata, for all exits that were received till November 30, last year.
Gupta further said that the operators have collectively paid Bharti Infratel around Rs 55 crore in cash during October-December 2018 quarter and the remaining payment will be made on monthly installments basis with interest spread across a period of three years.
Gupta said that after the merger of Vodafone Idea, the phase of consolidation is mostly behind us and so are the co-locations exits that Barti Infratel has been witnessing.
Between Infratel and Indus, there were more than 57,000 exits on a consolidated basis as on December 31, last year, spread across six quarters. The industry will now move forward to higher roll out of network, he added.
Third quarter revenues
The company announced an increase of 11 per cent in consolidated net profit at Rs 648 crore for the third quarter of 2018-19.However, the consolidated revenues of the company have declined marginally to Rs 3,640 crore, whereas EBITDA (earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation) was Rs 1,513 crore, a decline of 6 per cent over a year-ago period.
