Month: December 2011
Green energy to be made mandatory for powering cell towers
Source: The Hindu Business Line Thomas K Thomas New Delhi, Dec. 8: The Department of Telecom will make it mandatory for mobile companies to tap into renewable sources of energy for powering their towers. Under the new rules, at least 50 per cent of towers and 20 per cent of the urban towers are to be powered by hybrid energy sources (renewable +grid) by 2015. This will have to be scaled up to 75 per cent of rural towers and 33 per cent in urban areas by 2020. The move…
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