Telstra enters Indian long-distance market
04-11-2011
Telstra JV to provide ILD, NLD services
Australia's top telecommunications company Telstra has entered into a joint venture with Microland, an Indian IT infrastructure services provider, to provide international and national long distance telephone and internet services.
Telstra Telecommunications Private Limited (TTPL) has been awarded three new licenses under the joint venture, which will see Telstra providing services within the next six months in Bangalore, Kolkata, Chennai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Mumbai and Pune pitched towards the multinational corporate market.
Mumbai and Chennai will be the company's international gateways linking into an international fibre network with direct routes into Europe and Asia.
Group Managing Director for Telstra International Group, Tarek Robbiati, said the licences will enable Telstra International to support the inflow of businesses setting up operations in India as well as local companies expanding into emerging markets by giving them access to Telstra's robust and resilient connectivity in Asia and globally.
"This development reinforces our foothold as an Asian network specialist and communications service provider with offices and licences in 12 Asia-Pacific countries" Robbiati said in a statement.
The Department of Telecommunications awarded three licences? international long distance (ILD), national long distance (NLD) and Internet Service Provider (ISP) licence to TTPL on October 11, which is owned 74% by Telstra International and 26 per cent by Microland.
"Today's announcement demonstrates Telstra's ongoing commitment to invest in India" Robbiati added. Telstra is re-entering India's consumer telecom market after over a decade. It was amongst the many foreign telecommunication companies that won licenses in the early 1990s. In 1995, it launched a mobile network in partnership with the B K Modi Group, but the network was later sold.
Telstra offers a full range of products and services, employing more than 39,000 people around the world and serving over 200 of the world's top 500 companies. In 2010-11, the company's sales revenue was A$ 25 billion. Its international businesses include Telstra International, a premier provider of international voice, satellite and IP data services, CSL? Hong Kong's leading mobile network operator, and China search and advertising businesses, including the Sequal businesses? Pcpop, IT168, Autohome and CHE 168, the Octave businesses? Sharp Point and ChinaM and LMobile and China Bar.
from Business Standard
Australia's top telecommunications company Telstra has entered into a joint venture with Microland, an Indian IT infrastructure services provider, to provide international and national long distance telephone and internet services.
Telstra Telecommunications Private Limited (TTPL) has been awarded three new licenses under the joint venture, which will see Telstra providing services within the next six months in Bangalore, Kolkata, Chennai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Mumbai and Pune pitched towards the multinational corporate market.
Mumbai and Chennai will be the company's international gateways linking into an international fibre network with direct routes into Europe and Asia.
Group Managing Director for Telstra International Group, Tarek Robbiati, said the licences will enable Telstra International to support the inflow of businesses setting up operations in India as well as local companies expanding into emerging markets by giving them access to Telstra's robust and resilient connectivity in Asia and globally.
"This development reinforces our foothold as an Asian network specialist and communications service provider with offices and licences in 12 Asia-Pacific countries" Robbiati said in a statement.
The Department of Telecommunications awarded three licences? international long distance (ILD), national long distance (NLD) and Internet Service Provider (ISP) licence to TTPL on October 11, which is owned 74% by Telstra International and 26 per cent by Microland.
"Today's announcement demonstrates Telstra's ongoing commitment to invest in India" Robbiati added. Telstra is re-entering India's consumer telecom market after over a decade. It was amongst the many foreign telecommunication companies that won licenses in the early 1990s. In 1995, it launched a mobile network in partnership with the B K Modi Group, but the network was later sold.
Telstra offers a full range of products and services, employing more than 39,000 people around the world and serving over 200 of the world's top 500 companies. In 2010-11, the company's sales revenue was A$ 25 billion. Its international businesses include Telstra International, a premier provider of international voice, satellite and IP data services, CSL? Hong Kong's leading mobile network operator, and China search and advertising businesses, including the Sequal businesses? Pcpop, IT168, Autohome and CHE 168, the Octave businesses? Sharp Point and ChinaM and LMobile and China Bar.
from Business Standard
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