Infosys, Wipro, IBM in fray for $600-mn Indus Tower contract
07 Nov 2011
Indian information technology firms Infosys Ltd, Wipro and IBM are in discussions with tower infrastructure company Indus Towers for a $500-600 million contract.
The tower infrastructure firm, a three-way joint venture between Bharti Group, Idea Cellular and Vodafone Essar, has been evaluating IT services vendors, Business Standard reported.
''So far, Wipro, Infosys and IBM have responded to the request for proposals (RFPs). The contract will be for eight to 10 years,'' the newspaper quoted an unnamed senior executive of the company as saying.
Indus Towers owns 110,000 towers and has operations in 16 of the 22 telecom circles.
Indus Towers is looking for a partner to provide end-to-end IT solutions, including infrastructure management, application development and other related managed services.
In June, IBM had signed a five-year integrated managed services agreement with Viom Networks (earlier known as Quippo-WTTIL), a joint venture between the tower arm of Tata Teleservices and SREI group's Quippo.
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