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Press Release -- March 25th, 2011
Source: Tata Communications
Tags: Exchange, Submarine Cable

Tata Communications introduces True MidEast plan for its trueroots customers

Competitive calling rates to the Middle East

Canada, Montreal, 25 March, 2011: Tata Communications, a leading provider of the new world of communications, today introduces True MidEast plan for its trueroots customers across US, UK and Canada. With MidEast plan customers can now call Saudi Arabia, UAE, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Oman and Iran at competitive rates, using local access numbers.

The Trueroots International Calling Service from Tata Communications provides an easy and secure way to stay in touch with family and friends. The service boasts voice clarity, ease of connectivity, uninterrupted calling and competitive international rates. To get started with True MidEast plan, all you need is a $/ £10.00 trueroots calling voucher which will then be credited as talk time for any calls made to the  Gulf as well as an additional 200+ other countries across the world.

Users can experience world-class telephony via  www.trueroots.uswww.trueroots.cawww.trueroots.co.ukwww.trueroots.sg,www.trueroots.hk and www.trueroots.eu .

Tata Communications enjoys a unique advantage in offering voice services which are backed by an extensive global submarine cable infrastructure. This infrastructure is also part of 80 other consortium and private cables (SEACOM, SE-ME-WE-3, SE-ME-WE-4, SAFE/SAT 3 and APCN etc.), touching six continents. Tata Communications owns the Tata Global Network, which includes the TGN Atlantic, TGN Western Europe, TGN Northern Europe, TGN Pacific, TGN Intra Asia, and TGN-India Asia subsea cable systems, all of which allow it to ensure international voice quality for its Trueroots product. The company is also the world’s largest carrier of wholesale voice traffic carrying 40 billion minutes annually.

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 multi-national 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 1 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)and Nepal (United Telecom Limited)
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)

www.tatacommunications.com

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.

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