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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