Bharti launches international data, Internet services
Friday, 13 June 2003, 19:30 IST
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NEW DELHI: Bharti group, India's leading private telecom conglomerate, Thursday announced the launch of data and Internet services globally using its submarine cable network. The company said the Network i2i submarine cable network would act as the "primary infrastructure backbone" for its data and Internet services. Network i2i is a 50:50 joint venture between SingTel and Bharti group. It is the world's largest capacity submarine cable and supports a bandwidth of up to 8.4 terabits a second. "We are opening a new, reliable, high capacity route from India, putting an end to frequent outages, network risk and high cost," Ashok Juneja, chief executive officer of Bharti Data and Broadband Group, told a press conference here. "With the launch of our international data services, consumers can for the first time place the entire order with a single organisation and thereby be sure of having their links implemented quickly, efficiently and flawlessly." Juneja said Bharti had already signed up agreements with corporate customers like Oracle, Microsoft, Citibank, Visa and JP Morgan Stanley for its data and Internet services.
Source: IANS
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