Tata communications named best Asian wholesale carrier

New York (NYSE), Mumbai (NSE, BSE) – November 15th, 2012 – Tata Communications, a leading provider of A New World of Communications, has won the Best Asian Wholesale Carrier Award at the 2012 Capacity Awards. The Capacity Awards, presented at Capacity Europe in Amsterdam yesterday, recognises wholesale players who have established themselves at the forefront of the wholesale telecoms industry by applying innovative processes and strategies to their wholesale businesses.

Alex Hawkes, Editor of Capacity Magazine, says: “This award pays tribute to Tata Communications’ strong and valuable position in the region, where it is able to offer high capacity reach to growth markets in South and Southeast Asia. The judging panel was highly impressed with the company’s substantial infrastructure investments during 2012, as well as the introduction of a number of new innovative initiatives, such as the IPX+ mobile broadband enablement framework. I would like to congratulate Tata Communications for winning the Capacity award for Best Asian Wholesale Carrier.”

Tata Communications’ breadth of wholesale offerings helps service providers address their core business challenges including service reach and interoperability, end-user experience, efficient capital allocation, and technology transformation. The past year has seen service innovation to support convergence with the launch of the IPX+ framework to address mobile broadband inter-provider challenges and the Global Meeting Alliance™ membership network, which helps service providers extend the global reach of business video.

Michel Guyot, President of Global Voice Solutions for Tata Communications, says: “This award recognises our commitment to not only delivering services that provide better quality, performance and reach for our service provider customers, but also to our unique partnership approach for mutual growth. Our focus on delivering industry-leading quality has led to 48% year-on-year volume growth for mobile voice traffic and 98% year-on-year volume growth from OTTs. We currently carry 1 billion voice minutes per week and more than 50 billion minutes annually, with 24 large voice strategic sourcing partnerships signed to date. We have also maintained our position as the world’s largest signaling provider, the 5th largest and fastest growing Tier 1 IP backbone, and the largest Ethernet provider. We look forward to building on our success in 2013.”

Tata Communications’ wholesale capabilities are anchored by its network of submarine and terrestrial cables, as well as a Tier-1 IP backbone with connectivity to over 400 PoPs which reach more than 200 countries and territories. It operates the world’s only wholly-owned fibre optic subsea cable ring around the world, consisting of over 210,000km of cables. The company is currently the world’s largest international wholesale voice carrier, with the most advanced intelligent routing platform to provide quality voice services.

Tata Communications has invested heavily in building network infrastructure which focuses on improving capacity to the fastest growing emerging markets. It has made strategic investments in South Africa (Neotel), Sri Lanka (Tata Communications Lanka Limited) and Nepal (United Telecom Limited). It also has strategic partnerships that ensure access to high-quality direct terminations and strong relationships in the voice, data and mobile segments, including 1,600 service provider customers.

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE	PRESS RELEASE
Natalie Chak Tata Communications +44 (0)7833 043 779 natalie.chak@tatacommunications.com	Neil Thomas Hill & Knowlton Strategies +44 207 413 3454 neil.thomas@hkstrategies.com

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About Tata Communications

Tata Communications Limited (CIN no: L64200MH1986PLC039266) along with its subsidiaries (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 Communications global network includes one of the most advanced and largest submarine cable networks and a Tier-1 IP network with connectivity to over 240 countries and territories across 400 PoPs, as well as nearly 1 million square feet of data centre and collocation space worldwide.

Tata Communications’ depth and breadth of reach in emerging markets includes leadership in Indian enterprise data services and leadership in global international voice. Tata Communications Limited is listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange and the National Stock Exchange of India.

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