We proudly talk about the exponential growth of mobile communications in India and yet we know so little about the infrastructure assets we hold.

While we built 350,000 towers and counting, their share ability, readiness to support power needs, space availability, reliability and performance of assets- are all but vaguely known to us. Now that we have some time as we aspire to enhance tenancies, it is best used to take stock and undertake comprehensive audits. This by no means would be a onetime effort but technologically supported for periodic repetition with remote field instrumentation.

If we don’t, we will inch closer to the precipice, waiting to fall and get swept away by the tsunami of data that 3G and 4G technologies will unleash.