SUNNYVALE, Calif., March 4 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- Tata
Communications, a leading global provider of a new world of
communications, has selected Telsima Corporation, a global
player in WiMAX systems to provide WiMAX solutions for Tata
Communications broadband wireless network in India.  Tata
Communications is the first to launch broadband services on
the WiMAX platform on a large scale for retail consumers in
India.

    -- Over 5000 Enterprise and Retail customers already up
in ten cities; 
       Aggressive plans to capture 200,000 customers in
retail segment alone 
       in FY 2009

    -- Bangalore unwired for Retail customers; over 600
base station sectors 
       deployed and radiating

    -- Plans to roll out WiMAX in 110 cities for Enterprise
and 15 Cities 
       for Retail Segment by 2008

    -- Telsima WiMAX solutions selected for the largest
deployment; 3000 
       base station sectors being deployed

    -- Telsima WiMAX solutions selected based on advanced
wireless 
       technologies; Largest WiMAX STC/MRC network ever
deployed

    In the initial phase, Tata Communications' WiMAX
network will offer Broadband Internet access and content
services to enterprise and residential customers in Delhi,
Mumbai, Pune, Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Cochin,
Chandigarh, and Kolkata.  By the end of 2008 Tata
Communications plans to have enabled WiMAX retail broadband
service in about 15 cities.  

    "Tata Communications' seeks to enrich life by
enabling reliable and affordable communication anytime,
anywhere", said Shankar Prasad, President, Tata
Communications' Retail Business Unit.  "To that end
Tata Communications has selected Telsima to provide WiMAX
infrastructure and subscriber equipment solutions to deploy
our commercial WiMAX network, with 3000 base station sectors
already getting deployed.  This enables our customers to
access video, education, music and business services. 
Telsima's focus on meeting the needs of the Indian market
and their commitment to deploy state-of-the-art WiMAX
solutions for a competitive market such as ours prompted us
to select them amongst various other solution providers. 
Telsima's solution equipped with STC/MRC technology allows
us to increase base station capacity thereby improving our
ability to serve large number of customers with high quality
and high speed broadband."

    "WiMAX enables broadband services in a cost
effective, decentralized manner in India where a majority of
the country is not covered by wired infrastructure.  The
Indian broadband market, which today serves only 3.1 million
customers in a nation with a population of over 1.2 billion,
is forecast to grow significantly. The scale of unmet demand
coupled with the emphasis on connectivity for education and
the increasing ability to purchase Internet services will
ensure that WiMAX broadband networks will thrive in this
market," Shankar Prasad further added.  

    "Inflection points create new winners", said
Alok Sharma, Telsima's CEO. "WiMAX combines disruptions
in Radio Frequency and Internet Protocol technologies to
support new cost structures that enable the proliferation of
wireless broadband telecommunications services into new
markets. Telsima has capitalized upon this opportunity and
delivered the largest and most advanced WiMAX deployments in
the world."

    "Given the pent up demand for broadband Internet
access, this extensive WiMAX network deployment by Tata
Communications and Telsima has the potential to dramatically
accelerate the adoption of true broadband services by
thousands of businesses and millions of consumers in a short
period of time throughout India", said Berge Ayvazian,
Chief Strategy Officer of Yankee Group.  This wireless
broadband network deployment will have an even more profound
impact on the country's educational and economic
development, and could rapidly enhance worker productivity,
facilitate electronic commerce and improve the quality of
health care services." 

    In support of Tata Communications' broadband wireless
network, Telsima provided a comprehensive WiMAX solution
including base station and subscriber station systems,
customer provisioning system and Network Management System
(NMS). 

    About Telsima
    Telsima Corporation is the leading provider of Mobile
WiMAX and WiMAX Certified Broadband Wireless Access (BWA)
solutions.  Telsima's award-winning, innovative technologies
offer service providers economic advantages, new business
models and more capital efficient network investment
profiles.  The Company has supplied the largest WiMAX
Certified deployments in the world, with over 10,000 base
station sectors and 100,000 modems sold to Tier 1 operators
in India, Eastern Europe, Russia and Africa in 2007. 
Telsima has been an active Principle Member of the WiMAX
Forum since 2004.  The Company is backed by leading Silicon
Valley investors including NewPath Ventures, CMEA Ventures,
New Enterprise Associates, JAFCO Asia, Intel Capital and
other strategic investors.  Telsima is headquartered in
Sunnyvale, California with development, sales and customer
support offices in Bangalore, New Delhi, Mumbai and
Ljubljana, Slovenia.  For more information, please visit,
http://www.telsima.com .

    About Tata Communications
    Tata Communications Limited along with its global
subsidiaries (Tata Communications) is a leading global
provider of the new world of communications.  The company
leverages its Tata Global Network, vertical intelligence and
leadership in emerging markets, to deliver value-driven,
globally managed solutions to the Fortune 1000 and mid-sized
enterprises, service providers and consumers.

    The Tata Communications portfolio includes
transmission, IP, converged voice, mobility, managed network
connectivity, hosted data center, communications solutions
and business transformation services to global and Indian
enterprises & service providers as well as, broadband
and content services to Indian consumers.  The Tata Global
Network encompasses one of the most advanced and largest
submarine cable networks, a Tier-1 IP network, connectivity
to more than 200 countries across 300 PoPs and more than one
million square feet data center space.  Tata Communications
serves its customers from its offices in 80 cities in 40
countries worldwide. Tata Communications has a strategic
investment in South African operator Neotel, providing the
company with a strong anchor to build an African footprint.

    The number one global international wholesale voice
operator and number one provider of International Long
Distance, Enterprise Data and Internet Services in India,
the company was named "Best Wholesale Carrier" at
the World Communications Awards in 2006 and was named the
"Best Pan-Asian Wholesale Provider" at the 2007
Capacity Magazine Global Wholesale Telecommunications Awards
for the second consecutive year.

    Becoming the leading integrated provider to drive and
deliver a new world of communications, Tata Communications
became the unified global brand for VSNL, VSNL
International, Teleglobe, Tata Indicom Enterprise Business
Unit and CIPRIS on February 13, 2008. 

    Tata Communications Ltd. is a part of the $29 billion
Tata Group; it 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). For more
information, please visit, http://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
http://www.sec.gov . Tata Communications is under no
obligation to, and expressly disclaims any obligation to,
update or alter its forward-looking statements.

    Media Contacts:

     Telsima:

     USA:
     Wolfgang Mack
     Telsima Corp.
     Tel:   +1-408-480-8630
     Email: wolfgang.mack@telsima.com

     Asia:
     Sangeeta Iyer
     Telsima Communications Pvt Ltd
     Tel:   +91-98-1828-8376
     Email: sangeeta.iyer@telsima.com
    
     Tata Communications:
     S Ravindran
     Tel:   +91-92-2330-6610
     Email: Ravindran.s@tatacommunications.com

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