Tata Communications gewinnt zum zweiten Mal "Best Global Wholesale Offering Award" der Capacity Awards 2010

Amsterdam - 16. November 2010 - Tata Communications, ein führender Anbieter von globalen Kommunikationslösungen, gewinnt den "Best Global Wholesale Offering Award" der Capacity Awards 2010. Mit der Auszeichnung, die von der international führenden Telekommunikationsfachzeitschrift "Capacity" vergeben wird, wird Tata Communications wegen ihres weltweiten Wholesale-Angebots ausgezeichnet. Bereits zum zweiten Mal in Folge gewinnt das Unternehmen den Award. Die Preisverleihung fand am Montag, 15. November auf der Capacity Europe in Amsterdam statt. Amsterdam - 16 November 2010 - Tata Communications, a leading global communications service provider, today announces it has won the Best Global Wholesale Offering Award at Capacity Awards 2010, following the awards ceremony held at Capacity Europe in Amsterdam yesterday. This accolade from the leading international telecoms trade publication is a validation of Tata Communications" comprehensive approach towards its global wholesale offering. It is the second year in a row that Tata Communications has won this award. "Tata Communications was chosen for its network reach, its strategic partnership approach and its commitment to improving capacity to the fastest growing emerging markets. It has invested in cable systems to Africa and Asia and has remained a leading force in International Voice transport," said Angela Partington, Editor of Capacity Magazine. The Capacity Awards recognizes wholesale players, who through applying effective techniques and strategies to their wholesale businesses have established themselves at the forefront of the wholesale telecoms industry. Michel Guyot, President of Global Voice Solutions for Tata Communications, said: "On top of our core capabilities, we have been continually focusing on solutions that enable us to differentiate and innovate to address today"s customer challenges beyond just cost. This award recognizes our commitment to delivering services that provide better quality, performance, reach and pricing for our customers." Reach, quality and performance of network Tata Communications is the world"s largest international wholesale voice carrier, with the most advanced intelligent routing platform to provide quality voice services in a cost effective manner. Tata Communications" wholesale capabilities are anchored by its network of submarine and terrestrial cables, encompassing a Tier-1 IP backbone spanning over 300 PoPs and reaching more than 240 countries. With an owned and operated cable network of over 200,000km, Tata Communications operates next-generation switches in 12 cities, six STPs on three continents with staff in over 40 countries. Tata Communications controls national networks in India, Nepal, Sri Lanka and South Africa. It also has strategic partnerships to ensure access to high-quality direction terminations and strong relationships in the voice, data and mobile segments, including 1,600 carrier customers, 480 Direct Connect relationships and 600 VoIP providers. Tata Communications has developed flexible partnership and sourcing strategies to help providers with larger issues such as high margin pressure, need to focus on core business, partial routing support and CAPEX commitment leading to multiyear strategic sourcing agreements with leading carriers. Leading the industry With the launch of IPX (IP exchange), Tata Communications facilitates the IP migration for mobile operators allowing them to better control their customer experience with the right end-to-end QOS. Customers can also reduce their OPEX and CAPEX needs, through the scalability and the lower costs offered by an IP platform. Tata Communications leads the market response to fixed and mobile number portability with its launch of portability-corrected routing to 12 of the largest and most popular destinations, with plans to expand to 24 countries. Its investment improves call quality and completion rates to ported numbers, and enables fully transparent routing and pricing to number portability destinations. It is also an industry leader in the rollout of IPv6, having enabled dual-stack IPv4/IPv6 nodes on all of its global IP PoPs. Investment in network Tata Communications has invested heavily in network build-out which focuses on improving capacity to the fastest growing emerging markets. As part of a $2 billion global investment, it has invested in the EASSy, WACS, SEACOM, TGN-IA, TGN-Eurasia, TGN-Gulf and IMEWE cable systems to strengthen reliability with a round-the-continent ring for route diversity. The network is fully East-West diversified to best serve a global customer base and designed to keep regional traffic in-region, even in the traditionally under-served markets of Southeast Asia, the Middle East and Africa. About Capacity Awards 2010 Capacity magazine"s Global Wholesale Telecommunications Awards recognises market players, who through applying effective techniques and strategies to their wholesale businesses, have established themselves at the forefront of the wholesale telecoms industry. The awards is organised by Capacity Media which focuses on the wholesale telecommunications market and carrier-to-carrier business, reflects Capacity"s focus on the business techniques needed for innovation and success in the rapidly evolving wholesale market. This year"s awards was announced on November 15 in Amsterdam, on the first evening of Capacity Europe 2010 at an awards cocktail reception attended by senior-level industry executives. For more information on Capacity Awards 2010, please visit: http://www.capacitymedia.com/capacityawards2010.asp Tata Communications Janice Goveas Bandra Kurla Complex 400 098 Mumbai +91 922 339 4575 www.tatacommunications.com Pressekontakt: Hill & Knowlton Communications GmbH Nicole Stück Schwedlerstraße 6 60314 Frankfurt am Main nicole.stueck@hillandknowlton.com 069 244 3292 13 http://www.hillandknowlton.de