Mumbai, July 9 (Inditop.com) Telecom major Idea Cellular has received shareholders’ approval to hive off its tower business into a subsidiary company Idea cellular Towers Infrastructure, the company said Thursday.

Its rivals Airtel and Reliance Communications had earlier demerged their passive infrastructure – towers and base stations – business to save costs.

“Shareholders have approved the scheme of arrangement on demerger of passive infrastructure of the company to its wholly-owned subsidiary Idea Cellular Towers Infrastructure, with requisite majority,” the company said in a regulatory statement.

Infrastructure operations consist of tower, generator and other non-core telecom network related assets of wireless operators.