MUMBAI (Reuters) - Indian telecommunications carrier Reliance Communications Ltd said on Wednesday it had signed a binding pact with Canada's Brookfield Infrastructure for selling a stake in its mobile phone tower business.
The two sides had signed a non-binding pact in October.
Under the terms of the deal, Reliance Communications is to receive an upfront payment of 110 billion rupees ($1.6 billion), which it has said will use to cut its debt load.
Shares of Reliance Communications jumped more than 8 percent after the announcement.
($1 = 67.8525 Indian rupees)
(Reporting by Devidutta Tripathy; Editing by Subhranshu Sahu)
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