Tata Communications & Middle Eastern operators to work with Tyco Telecommunications

Wednesday, Feb 24, 2010

Tata Communications has announced that Tyco Telecommunications, will be constructing the TGN gulf cable system. Tata Communications' partners in the TGN gulf project, namely Bahrain Internet Exchange in the Kingdom of Bahrain, Nawras of Oman, Qatar Telecom of Qatar, Mobily of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Etisalat of the United Arab Emirates will each be an exclusive landing party for the TGN gulf cable system. Tata Communications and its partners intend to build on this cable project as part of strategic relationships that will support the development of an extended portfolio of advanced telecommunications services such as global ethernet, MPLS based VPN, managed security, IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) and global telepresence. All these services are ideally suited to support both local and global enterprises, which are very active in this rapidly expanding emerging market region.

The company made this announcement during the trading hours today, 23 February 2010.

Source: Bloomberg UTV