Tata Communications rolls out world's largest commercial wi-max network with Telsima
March 4, 2008

• Over 5,000 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 wi-max in 110 cities for enterprise and 15 cities for retail segment by 2008
  
• Telsima wi-max solutions selected for the largest deployment; 3,000 base station sectors being deployed
  
• Telsima wi-max solutions selected based on advanced wireless technologies; largest wi-max STC / MRC network ever deployed
  

Sunnyvale, California: Tata Communications, a leading global provider of a new world of communications, has selected Telsima Corporation, a global player in wi-max systems to provide wi-max solutions for Tata Communications broadband wireless network in India. Tata Communications is the first to launch broadband services on the wi-max platform on a large scale for retail consumers in India.

In the initial phase, Tata Communications' wi-max 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 wi-max 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 wi-max infrastructure and subscriber equipment solutions to deploy our commercial wi-max network, with 3,000 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 wi-max 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."

"Wi-max enables broadband services in a cost effective, decentralised 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 wi-max broadband networks will thrive in this market," Shankar Prasad further added. 

"Inflection points create new winners." said Alok Sharma, Telsima's CEO. "Wi-max 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 capitalised upon this opportunity and delivered the largest and most advanced wi-max deployments in the world."

"Given the pent up demand for broadband Internet access, this extensive wi-max 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 wi-max solution including base station and subscriber station systems, customer provisioning system and network management system.

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