The Financial Times notes that GTL Infrastructure, the Indian mobile tower group, has sought to reassure telecoms operators it remains independent in spite of announcing a proposed US$11 billion merger last week with the cell mast unit of Reliance Communications. Manoj Tirodkar, chairman of GTL, said the planned deal with Reliance Infratel, part of India’s second-largest mobile group controlled by industrialist Anil Ambani, would not prevent him looking for transactions with rival operators.