India's Reliance Jio Infocomm has filed for approval to amalgamate its telecom units, and has signed yet another tower sharing deal to support its planned pan-India 4G operations.
The company has petitioned the Bombay High Court to allow it to consolidate its long distance services subsidiary Infotel Telecom with the parent entity, the Hindu Business Linereported.
The report cites a letter from Reliance Jio to regulator DoT explaining that the company wants to carry out its international long distance operations under a single unified telecom license. To facilitate this, it wants to fold Infotel into its core operations.
Reliance Jio has also applied to the DoT seeking approval to set up international gateways in Mumbai and Chennai to allow it to offer internet services in India. The DoT will need to complete a security process including setting up an interception and monitoring program at the gateways.
Separately, the operator has signed a tower sharing agreement with Ascend Telecom, the Times of Indiasaid. The deal will give Reliance Jio access to a network of around 4,500 towers across India for its 4G services.
Reliance Jio has already signed multiple infrastructure sharing deals with companies including Reliance Communications, Bharti Airtel and Infratel, and ATC India.
The operator is expected to launch TD-LTE services in the September quarter, and in January revealed that its network is looking set to deliver real-world downlink speeds of 49 Mbps.