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Press Release -- April 26th, 2010
Source: Tata Communications
Tags: Ethernet, Exchange, Expansion, MPLS, Submarine Cable, Telepresence

Tata Communications extends its reach to Russia

Moscow, Russia, 26 April 2010 – Tata Communications, a leading provider of a new world of communications, today announces a further expansion of its network into Russia via a local Moscow point of presence. As the brand sets its sights on the growing demand for telecom services in Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), its local presence in this geography further reinforces its focus on emerging markets.

Tata Communications owns and operates one of the world’s largest private sub-sea cable networks, enabling flexible and scalable end-to-end solutions backed by strong Service Level Agreements (SLAs). It delivers services to over 1,600 wholesale customers, 10,000 enterprise customers and more than 600 mobile operators – this includes over 100 service providers in Russia and CIS that are serviced from the Moscow office.

“Our expansion into Russia highlights our commitment to extend our global footprint into the emerging markets and deliver an unparalleled global network reach for our industry-leading voice and data services,” says Claude Sassoulas, Managing Director, Europe and Africa, Tata Communications.

Multiple services from its Moscow location will integrate seamlessly into the company’s next generation network and IP/MPLS and Ethernet infrastructure for onward national and regional connectivity. The company’s MPLS network reaches 67 countries together with its VNO network that reaches 194 countries.

In addition, Tata Communications serves most of the leading mobile operators in the region with advanced roaming signaling and value-added service solutions. The Moscow node will give operators easier access to the company’s recently launched state of the art IPX (IP Exchange) multiservice framework. This will enable routing of all communication traffic, including voice, IP and signaling solutions, via one IP pipe and will also support end-to-end QoS, security, multilateral connectivity and cascade payments.

Tata Communications is one of the world’s leading carriers of internet traffic and is a global Tier 1 IP provider with over 2 Tbps meshed network built on 10G backbones. The company provides internet service providers with access to one of the most dynamically routed and high-performance global IP networks.
By providing high-speed internet connectivity to operators and service providers in Russia as well Latvia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan, Tata Communications is enabling the rapid growth of internet usage in these markets.

The company is also pioneering international collaboration services by connecting Russia and CIS to its global telepresence network through a partnership agreement with Kazakh Telecom. The agreement will see connection between the cities of Moscow, Astana and Almaty to its global Telepresence public room network which will have coverage across 35 cities worldwide by the end of 2010.

“We can now offer our global managed network services to companies that are looking to expand into Russia in a much more cost-effective manner and we’ll be working with partners to enable Russian companies as they increasingly look to get access to a full world-class solution of telecommunications services” concludes Sassoulas.

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For further information on Tata Communications, please visit www.tatacommunications.com

About Tata Communications

Tata Communications is a leading global provider of a new world of communications. With a leadership position in emerging markets, Tata Communications leverages its advanced solutions capabilities and domain expertise across its global and pan-India network to deliver managed solutions to multinational enterprises, service providers and Indian consumers.

The Tata Global Network includes one of the most advanced and largest submarine cable networks, a Tier-1 IP network, with connectivity to more than 200 countries across 400 PoPs, and nearly one million square feet of data center and collocation space worldwide.

Tata Communications’ depth and breadth of reach in emerging markets includes leadership in Indian enterprise data services, leadership in global international voice, and strategic investments in operators in South Africa (Neotel), Sri Lanka (Tata Communications Lanka Limited), Nepal (United Telecom Limited), and subject to approval by the Chinese government, China (China Enterprise Communications).

Tata Communications Limited is listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange and the National Stock Exchange of India and its ADRs are listed on the New York Stock Exchange. (NYSE: TCL)

Forward-looking and cautionary statements

Certain words and statements in this release concerning Tata Communications and its prospects, and other statements, including those relating to Tata Communications’ expected financial position, business strategy, the future development of Tata Communications’ operations, and the general economy in India, are forward-looking statements. Such statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors, including financial, regulatory and environmental, as well as those relating to industry growth and trend projections, which may cause actual results, performance or achievements of Tata Communications, or industry results, to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. The important factors that could cause actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially from such forward-looking statements include, among others, failure to increase the volume of traffic on Tata Communications’ network; failure to develop new products and services that meet customer demands and generate acceptable margins; failure to successfully complete commercial testing of new technology and information systems to support new products and services, including voice transmission services; failure to stabilize or reduce the rate of price compression on certain of the company’s communications services; failure to integrate strategic acquisitions and changes in government policies or regulations of India and, in particular, changes relating to the administration of Tata Communications’ industry; and, in general, the economic, business and credit conditions in India. Additional factors that could cause actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially from such forward-looking statements, many of which are not in Tata Communications’ control, include, but are not limited to, those risk factors discussed in Tata Communications’ various filings with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. These filings are available at www.sec.gov. Tata Communications is under no obligation to, and expressly disclaims any obligation to, updates or alters its forward-looking statements.

Janice Goveas
Tata Communications
+91 92233 94575
Janice.Goveas@tatacommunications.com

David Chin
Hill & Knowlton Singapore for Tata Communications
+65 6390 3347
david.chin@hillandknowlton.com.sg

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