Mumbai 13, 2017: India has experienced an exponential growth in the recent years in the telecom sector and still rising with the Government’s initiatives of penetrating the telecom usage in rural India as well. But in the rural area, they are facing quite a few challenges with the availability of power supply and even with the quality. With TRAI recommendation to initiate measures to green the telecom sector, even Indian companies are coming up with innovations to have a green telecom sector.

Indus Tower has presented a unique innovation “Green Cooling Solution for Telecom Towers: Solar Cooling Unit” at the Aegis Graham Bell Award Jury Round under the “Green Telecom” category. The solution where site will operate on zero cooling cost and will use solar power for forced air circulation along with natural air to avoid use of any fossil fuel. The solution removes heat from the telecom tower shelter by using a combination of solar powered exhaust fans & wind driven multiple turbine ventilators.

“Aegis Graham Bell Jury round is very well coordinated and managed. It was a great experience to come down and learn from within industry and work happening with fast change of pace. This platform gives us a good place to share our business innovation and product development areas. All the very best for leading this ICT category and great to partner with Aegis Graham Bell Award” – Mr Rajesh Bansal, National Head – Energy, Indus Towers.

About Indus Tower:

Indus Towers is the country’s largest telecom tower company. Indus Towers Ltd is in the business of installing and managing Telecom Towers for its customers, i.e. Telecom Operators like Airtel, Vodafone. To do that Indus provides three services & products to its customers: i. Telecom Tower ii. Space to keep active equipment iii. Power to maintain the towers 24×7 and cooling required for communication equipment

About us:

The Aegis Graham Bell Award is the largest innovation award for the ICT domain in India. The Aegis School of Business, Data Science, Cyber Security and Telecommunication has established the Aegis Graham Bell Award as a tribute to the father of the telephony, Alexander Graham Bell. This Award is intended to promote innovation, entrepreneurship in the field of Telecom, Social, Mobility, Analytics, Cloud, and Security to provide recognition for outstanding contributions by the innovators. The Award is organized with support of the Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI), and Telecom Centres of Excellence (TCOE), Convergence India and Deloitte as a knowledge partner.The 8th Award ceremony will take place on 23th February 2018 at New Delhi. For further information, please visit: www.bellaward.com

For more information, please contact:

Shweta Chavan | Corporate Communication | Aegis Graham Bell Awards | 8433969263 | shweta@bellaward.com