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Following Beijing Success, Company Introduces Next Generation Service Globally

New Delhi (India) – September 19, 2008 – Tata Communications (NYSE: TCL), a leading provider of the new world of communications, announced today a partnership with Bharti Telesoft, a leading mobile VAS solution provider, resulting in the launch of its Intelligent CAMEL eXchange (ICX), a value-added service that enables mobile operators to significantly reduce the time frame, cost of implementing and maintaining CAMEL roaming relationships.

Last month, Tata Communications offered its ICX service on a limited-availability basis to four of the world’s largest mobile network operators, allowing them to open up CAMEL-based roaming to one of China’s largest mobile phone operators in time for the Beijing Olympic Games. Based on the vastly successful outcome of Beijing, the ICX service is now available to support live traffic to other destinations, opening the floodgates to destinations outside of China.

With ten operators already connected to the ICX platform, Tata Communications currently offers CAMEL roaming and connectivity to China, the United Kingdom, Romania, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Sweden, with more than 30 additional operators committed to utilizing the service globally. Tata Communications offers mobile network operators with the promise to fast track CAMEL roaming with key roaming partners worldwide.

“Tata Communications is committed to offering the most innovative services to our customers worldwide and we’re pleased with the response of our customers to the ICX service” said Allan Chan, Executive Vice President, Mobility Services for Tata Communications. “Our trial participants are now able to open service to other destinations to help them go beyond Beijing and fast track their roaming reach around the world.”

Directly confronting the interoperability challenges operators face when expanding into developing markets with highly complex networks, the Intelligent CAMEL eXchange facilitates the implementation of CAMEL roaming agreements through intelligent signaling, monitoring, and normalization. The innovative technology solution, which was developed in partnership with Bharti Telesoft, enables mobile operators to increase efficiency in implementing CAMEL Roaming relationships.

With a global reach to more than 630 Mobile Network Operators (MNOs), including over 170 on-net customers, Tata Communications is uniquely positioned to offer MNOs with unconditional signaling reach and connectivity that CAMEL roaming demands. Additionally ICX integrates the CAMEL normalization and Virtual Home Environment (VHE) capabilities, which are provided by Bharti Telesoft. VHE services increase ICX call completion rates dramatically, while improving the customer’s experience.

“While we are known in the mobile market for our numerous platforms to mobile network operators, this collaboration with Tata Communications marks our entry in the Managed Services area”, says Mao Mohapatra, CEO of Bharti Telesoft. “The ability to serve mobile carriers in this capacity is an exciting step for Bharti Telesoft. We are very enthusiastic about the potential of serving mobile carriers this way and look forward to a promising future in our collaboration with Tata Communications.”

As part of the ICX offering Tata Communications manages the monitoring and troubleshooting of CAMEL roaming issues within ICX service-users, in turn, enhancing resource utilization of the mobile operators as well as guaranteeing service availability to roamers of ICX. In addition to expediting the CAMEL roaming establishment process, ICX also reduces the need for CAPEX investments in network configuration modifications for service users.

Further information regarding Tata Communications’ Intelligent CAMEL eXchange can be found at www.tatacommunications.com/mobile.

About Bharti Telesoft

Bharti Telesoft is the leading provider of integrated VAS solutions for mobile operators in emerging markets. Among the top 3 global providers of integrated VAS solutions in rapidly growing markets, Bharti Telesoft has deployed solutions for over 100 mobile operator customers in over 70 countries worldwide. Its solutions help power services to over 500 million mobile subscribers globally. With an extensive portfolio that easily integrates into the operator’s business environment and includes mobile music, banking, prepaid and messaging applications, Bharti Telesoft’s solutions reach one in three mobile phone users in the emerging markets of Asia, Africa and the Middle East. Bharti Telesoft is owned by Bharti Enterprises, one of India’s leading business groups with a market capitalization of over US$40bn, Sequoia Capital, a leading Venture Capital business whose interests make up 10% of the NASDAQ’s value and whose investments have included Apple, Oracle, Google, and YouTube, and Cisco, the world’s leading provider of network equipment and management for the Internet. For more information, please visit www.bhartitelesoft.com

About Tata Communications

Tata Communications Limited along with its global subsidiaries (Tata Communications) is a leading global provider of the new world of communications. The company leverages its Tata Global Network, vertical intelligence and leadership in emerging markets to deliver value-driven, globally managed solutions to the Fortune 1000 and midsized enterprises, service providers and consumers.

The Tata Communications portfolio includes transmission, IP, converged voice, mobility, managed network connectivity, hosted data center, communications solutions and business transformation services to global and Indian enterprises and service providers, as well as broadband and content services to Indian consumers. The Tata Global Network encompasses one of the most advanced and largest submarine cable networks, a Tier-1 IP network, connectivity to more than 200 countries across 300 PoPs, and more than 1 million square feet of data center space. Tata Communications serves its customers from its offices in 80 cities in 40 countries worldwide. Tata Communications has a strategic investment in South African operator Neotel, providing the company with a strong anchor to build an African footprint.

The number one global international wholesale voice operator and number one provider of international long distance, enterprise data and Internet services in India, the company was named “Best Wholesale Carrier” at the World Communications Awards in 2006 and was named the “Best Pan-Asian Wholesale Provider” at the 2007 Capacity Magazine Global Wholesale Telecommunications Awards for the second consecutive year.

Now the leading integrated provider to drive and deliver a new world of communications, Tata Communications became the unified global brand for VSNL, VSNL International, Teleglobe, Tata Indicom Enterprise Business Unit, and CIPRIS on February 13, 2008.

Tata Communications Ltd. is a part of the $29 billion Tata Group; it is listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange and the National Stock Exchange of India and its ADRs are listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: TCL).For more information, please visit www.tatacommunications.com

Media Contacts

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Andrea Stone

Head – Marketing Communications and Sales Support
Bharti Telesoft Ltd.
F-13, Okhla Phase 1
New Delhi – 110020
Switchboard: +91 (0) 11 4161 1666 (Ext. 1206)
Mobile: +91 98 1865 0410
Fax: +91 (0) 11 4161 1777
andrea.stone {at} bhartitelesoft(.)com

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Sundeep Mehta

PR and Corporate Communications
Bharti Telesoft Ltd.
F-13, Okhla Phase 1
New Delhi – 110020
Switchboard: +91 (0) 11 4161 1666
Mobile: +91 9868779770
Fax: +91 (0) 11 4161 1777
sundeep.mehta {at} bhartitelesoft(.)com