Mumbai : Leading telecom player Vodafone India said it plans to acquire more spectrum to increase its network. “We have plans to acquire more spectrum, whether they are in trading route, sharing route or action route, we have not announced yet.
But we do have plans to have more spectrum. We feel that we need to increase our portfolio,” Vodafore India managing director and CEO Sunil Sood said.
Sood said that in the next phase of its 4G roll-out, it will cover the key circles of Gujarat, Haryana, UP (E) and West Bengal soon. The company is already offering 4G services across the five circles of Mumbai, Delhi & NCR, Kolkata, Karnataka and Kerala. With this roll out, its 4G services will be available across 1,000 towns this year, he said.
The nine circles of Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata, Karnataka, Kerala, Haryana, Gujarat, UP (E) and West Bengal, together contribute to just under 70% of Vodafone India’s data revenues.
On the call drop issue, Sood said, “We are working on it. We have already invested over Rs 2,000 crore in Delhi, NCR region and Mumbai circles for adding fibre network and adding more sites. We have invested Rs 1,000 crore and added 3,185 sites and 600 km of fibre network last year in Delhi and NCR.”
