The leading Nordic telecom operator, Telenor of Norway, has snapped up 40,000 sq ft prime office space on long term lease in city’s Salt Lake Electronic complex (Saltlec) in the run-up to launching GSM services under the Uninor brand in West Bengal.
Prime floor space has been taken for an undisclosed sum at the South City Pinnacle Towers. The deal was done through Unitech Wireless, in which the Telenor Group has 67.25% stake.
Telenor has also put in place a 200-member team that will anchor its upcoming cellular rollout in the Kolkata and West Bengal circles. The leadership team will be headed by Unitech Wireless executive vice-president (Kolkata hub) Akash Das, who is an old veteran in the Telenor system. Key members of the Brand Uninor Kolkata leadership team are chief technology officer Chanchal Chakraborty; chief marketing officer Rahul Ray; chief HR officer Jayanta Saha, legal & regulatory affairs head Pradipta Chowdhury and project management head A Rahman.
Confirming the developments, a Unitech Wireless spokeswoman said: “The company has just taken 40,000 sq feet of floor space at the South City Pinnacle Towers on long term lease and our 200-member Kolkata team is in the process of shortly relocating there from our nearby temporary premises. The West Bengal (including Kolkata) GSM network rollout will be headed by Akash Das, who will also be responsible for Telenors network rollouts in Orissa and other eastern states.”
Company exectuives, however, declined to share the commercials of the just concluded floor space acqusition. It is learnt that Unitech Wirelessa JV between the Telenor Group and Delhis Unitech Group has inked tower-sharing agreements with Wireless-TT Info Service and Quippo Telecom Infrastructure in the run up to the mobile services rollout in Kolkata and West Bengal circles. By virtue of the tower-sharing agreement, the Uninor network in these circles will cover roughly 40,000 cell sites that will effectively cover 55-60 % of the population. In addition, towards network rollouts nationally, the company has given managed services contracts to Alcatel-Lucent,Nokia Siemens Networks, ZTE, Huwaei Tech and Sony Ericsson.
Source: MagicBrick
Prime floor space has been taken for an undisclosed sum at the South City Pinnacle Towers. The deal was done through Unitech Wireless, in which the Telenor Group has 67.25% stake.
Telenor has also put in place a 200-member team that will anchor its upcoming cellular rollout in the Kolkata and West Bengal circles. The leadership team will be headed by Unitech Wireless executive vice-president (Kolkata hub) Akash Das, who is an old veteran in the Telenor system. Key members of the Brand Uninor Kolkata leadership team are chief technology officer Chanchal Chakraborty; chief marketing officer Rahul Ray; chief HR officer Jayanta Saha, legal & regulatory affairs head Pradipta Chowdhury and project management head A Rahman.
Confirming the developments, a Unitech Wireless spokeswoman said: “The company has just taken 40,000 sq feet of floor space at the South City Pinnacle Towers on long term lease and our 200-member Kolkata team is in the process of shortly relocating there from our nearby temporary premises. The West Bengal (including Kolkata) GSM network rollout will be headed by Akash Das, who will also be responsible for Telenors network rollouts in Orissa and other eastern states.”
Company exectuives, however, declined to share the commercials of the just concluded floor space acqusition. It is learnt that Unitech Wirelessa JV between the Telenor Group and Delhis Unitech Group has inked tower-sharing agreements with Wireless-TT Info Service and Quippo Telecom Infrastructure in the run up to the mobile services rollout in Kolkata and West Bengal circles. By virtue of the tower-sharing agreement, the Uninor network in these circles will cover roughly 40,000 cell sites that will effectively cover 55-60 % of the population. In addition, towards network rollouts nationally, the company has given managed services contracts to Alcatel-Lucent,Nokia Siemens Networks, ZTE, Huwaei Tech and Sony Ericsson.
Source: MagicBrick
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