GTL INFRA.LTD

GTL Infrastructure Limited (GIL) is an P-1 registered entity with the Department of Telecommunications, Government of India. The Company is in the business of passive infrastructure sharing, which is based on building, owning, operating and maintaining passive telecom infrastructure sites capable of hosting active network components of various technologies of multiple telecom operators as well providing energy management solutions. Together with Chennai Network Infrastructure Limited (CNIL), an associate, the Company has a combined tower portfolio of 27,839 towers spread across all the 22 telecom circles in India, and serving most major telecom operators. The Company was promoted by GTL Limited. GTL Infrastructure Limited was incorporated on February 4, 2004, as 'GTL Engineering & Managed Network Services Limited'. In February, 2005, the name was changed to GTL Infrastructure Limited. The infrastructure division of the GTL Ltd was demerged and transferred to the company with effect from October 1, 2005. The Company is in the business of passive infrastructure sharing which is based on building, owning, operating and maintaining passive telecom infrastructure sites capable of hosting active network components of various technologies of multiple telecom operators as well providing energy management solutions. During the year 2005-06, the company acquired Network Infrastructure assets of GTL Ltd comprising of Network Operating Centre and associated equipment and applications for a cash consideration of Rs 214.59 crore. In November 9, 2006 GTL Infrastructure Ltd was listed on BSE and NSE and became the first company in Asia Pacific to get listed in the Shared Telecom Infrastructure space. During the year 2006-07, the company signed Master Services Agreement (MSA) with two national levels and one regional level operator for a contracts period of 10-15 years. Also, they bagged 421 cell sites from the Universal Service Obligation (USO) tender, thus emerging as the No 1 player amongst third party neutral shared telecom Infrastructure companies. In November 2007, the company signed an MoU with IDFC Project Equity Company Ltd to form a special purpose vehicle that shall address the Telecom Tower Infrstructure acquisition opportunities. During the year 2009-10, Tower Worldwide Ltd ceased to the subsidiary of the company. In January 2010, the company entered into a definite agreement to puchase the telecom tower business of Aircel Ltd and their subsidiaries through a special purpose vehicle (SPV), Chennai Network Infrastructure Ltd in an all cash deal valued at an enterprices value of Rs 8,400 crore. Company acquired 17,500 towers and 21,000 tenancies from Aircel in June, 2010. Chennai Network Infrastructure Limited (CNIL), promoted by Global Group, became subsidiary of the Company during FY 2010-11. Chennai Network Infrastructure Limited (CNIL) ceased to be a subsidiary of the Company with effect from December 20, 2012. The Company entered into a tower infrastructure sharing deal with Reliance Jio in 2014. During FY 2016-17, Chennai Network Infrastructure Limited (CNIL) was merged with Company through the Scheme of Arrangement, which became operational from December 22, 2017. Pursuant to the Scheme, Shareholders of CNIL received for each equity share held by them with one equity share of face value of Rs 10 each in the Company. Accordingly, the Company allotted 7,588,819,117 equity shares of Rs 10 each to shareholders of CNIL. The Company lost substantial number of tenancies in the last few years, due to various events which were beyond management control, such as shut down/exit of 14 telecom customers including Aircel Group, Reliance Communications, Shyam Sistema and Tata Tele, Business combination of Vodafone - Idea and Telenor - Airtel, etc. These developments resulted in abandonment of towers by the customers and consequent reduction in the revenue and earnings in 2024. In 2024-2025, India's telecommunications sector saw transformative growth, driven by 5G expansion, Fixed Wireless Access adoption, infrastructure upgrades, and progressive regulatory reforms, with rising data usage and ARPU reflecting its resilience and maturity. India's telecom subscriber base reached 1,200.80 million total subscribers by March 2025, growing 0.91% from December 2024. The active wireless subscriber base neared 1.08 billion in May 2025. As of March 31, 2025; 22,262 tenants occupied GTL INFRA's active towers, marginally up from 22,018 the prior year.