Tata Communications First to Launch Cisco TelePresence Rooms for Public Use

Mumbai, India (ots/PRNewswire) -

- Pay-Per-Use Public Rooms Available in Taj Hotels and Business
Centres Around the World

MUMBAI, India, October 16 /PRNewswire/ --

Tata Communications, a leading provider of the new world of
communications, announced the launch of its telepresence rooms
available for public use in the United States and United Kingdom,
linking to additional public rooms in Mumbai, Bangalore and Chennai,
India. The collaboration between Tata Communications and Cisco is the
first managed telepresence service in the world to deliver public and
private Cisco TelePresence rooms to companies globally. This new
service will allow companies and individuals to use Cisco
TelePresence for one-off meetings.

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Tata Communications is working with Cisco, Taj Hotels owner, the
Indian Hotels Company Limited, and the Confederation of India
Industry (CII) to offer public telepresence facilities which are
available for rent on an hourly basis. The first phase of public
rooms was launched in India in July at the Taj Hotels in Mumbai and
Bangalore, and CII offices in Bangalore and Chennai. Tata plans to
make 100 rooms available globally by the end of 2009.

Cisco today also introduced a dedicated public Cisco TelePresence
suites facility in Santa Clara, California.

"With this innovative service offering, Tata Communications is
not only adding value to its business and that of its customers, but
revolutionising business altogether," said Tata Communications, Chief
Operating Officer, Vinod Kumar. "This groundbreaking innovation
enables our global customers to join a wider ecosystem of users via
public access rooms allowing them to not only communicate virtually
in real-time but providing a cost-effective and eco-friendly
solution."

The public room offering creates a larger network of
interconnected rooms and expands the telepresence market to small and
mid-sized businesses. Tata Communications' managed service offers a
professionally run concierge service that handles reservations,
scheduling, customer support, monitoring, management, reporting and
billing capabilities. These services provide organizations with the
ease and speed to deploy and manage highly collaborative tools more
effectively. The public room offering is also certified as a world
class network solution, which further helps ensure high levels of
reliability and availability.

"Public Cisco TelePresence rooms provide global organisations
with a cost effective way to connect in virtual 'in person' meetings
with key customers, partners and suppliers around the globe. Our
objective was to collaborate with a company to launch a unique Cisco
TelePresence solution that was innovative, yet reliable and cost
effective for businesses whatever their size," said Cisco Chief
Globalisation Officer, Wim Elfrink. "Working with Tata Communications
offers customers extensive coverage in a user-friendly managed
service, and has the potential to help small to medium businesses
develop more globalised business models. These Public Cisco
TelePresence rooms join a Cisco TelePresence ecosystem that almost
300 rooms internal to Cisco and more than 1,000 rooms installed by
over 200 customers. Cisco TelePresence is now represented in over 60
countries worldwide."

Cisco TelePresence provides life-like, high definition,
conferencing facilities with superior audio, video and environmental
qualities allowing participants to meet their colleagues, customers
and business partners across a virtual table. Cisco TelePresence use
also contributes towards a company's environmental responsibility,
enabling it to lower overall CO2 emissions by reducing the need for
travel.

"It is our constant endeavour to provide state-of-the-art
value-added services to our customers. With the telepresence
facility, we will be one of the first hospitality companies worldwide
to offer this kind of cutting edge technology. We are happy to
announce that this facility will be available at Taj Hotels Resorts
and Palaces' properties in Mumbai, Bangalore, New York, Boston and
London," said Mr. Raymond Bickson, managing director, Indian Hotels
Corporation Ltd.

Tata Communications have plans to open additional rooms in
Hyderabad, Gurgaon, and New York later this year, with a more
extensive global rollout of 100 rooms planned to be deployed by 2009.

For further information on Tata Communications Telepresence
Services visit http://www.tatacommunications.com/telepresence

About Tata Communications

Tata Communications, a member of the $62.5 billion Tata Group, is
a leading global provider of a new world of communications. The
emerging markets communications leader leverages its advanced
solutions capabilities and domain expertise across its global and
pan-India network to deliver managed solutions to multi-national and
Indian enterprises, service providers and Indian consumers.

Tata Communications' range of services include transmission, IP,
converged voice, mobility, managed network connectivity, hosting and
storage, managed security, managed collaboration and business
transformation for global enterprises and service providers, as well
as Internet, retail broadband and content services for Indian
consumers. The Tata Global Network encompasses one of the most
advanced and largest submarine cable networks, a Tier-1 IP network,
with connectivity to more than 200 countries across 300 Pops, and
more than 1 million square feet of data center and co-location
facilities.

Tata Communications' unique emerging market depth and breadth of
reach includes a national fiber backbone network and access to
network in over 60 cities and 125 Pops in India, strategic
investments in South African converged services operator, Neotel, Sri
Lanka and Nepal and, subject to fulfillment of conditions precedent,
a 50% ownership in China Enterprise Communications (CEC) providing
full country VPN coverage in China.

Servicing customers from its offices in over 80 cities in 40
countries, Tata Communications is 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, "Best Pan-Asian Wholesale Provider" at
the 2006 and 2007 Capacity Magazine Global Wholesale
Telecommunications Awards and was awarded "Best Progress in Emerging
Markets" at the 2008 Mobile Communication Awards.

Tata Communications Limited 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)

Forward-looking and cautionary statements

Certain words and statements in this release concerning Tata
Communications and its prospects, and other statements, including
those relating to Tata Communications' expected financial position,
business strategy, the future development of Tata Communications'
operations, and the general economy in India, are forward-looking
statements. Such statements involve known and unknown risks,
uncertainties and other factors, including financial, regulatory and
environmental, as well as those relating to industry growth and trend
projections, which may cause actual results, performance or
achievements of Tata Communications, or industry results, to differ
materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking
statements. The important factors that could cause actual results,
performance or achievements to differ materially from such
forward-looking statements include, among others, failure to increase
the volume of traffic on Tata Communications' network; failure to
develop new products and services that meet customer demands and
generate acceptable margins; failure to successfully complete
commercial testing of new technology and information systems to
support new products and services, including voice transmission
services; failure to stabilize or reduce the rate of price
compression on certain of the company's communications services;
failure to integrate strategic acquisitions and changes in government
policies or regulations of India and, in particular, changes relating
to the administration of Tata Communications' industry; and, in
general, the economic, business and credit conditions in India.
Additional factors that could cause actual results, performance or
achievements to differ materially from such forward-looking
statements, many of which are not in Tata Communications' control,
include, but are not limited to, those risk factors discussed in Tata
Communications' various filings with the United States Securities and
Exchange Commission. These filings are available at
http://www.sec.gov. Tata Communications is under no obligation to,
and expressly disclaims any obligation to, update or alter its
forward-looking statements.

Media Contacts:
Lee Ann Lim,
Tata Communications,
+1-703-999-1726,
Leeann.lim@tatacommunications.com ;
Janice Goveas,
Tata Communications,
+91-92233-94575,
janice.goveas@tatacommunications.com ;
Media Agency,
STC Associates,
+1-212-725-1900 x204,
kristen@stcassociates.com .

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Contact:
Media Contacts: Lee Ann Lim, Tata Communications, +1-703-999-1726,
Leeann.lim@tatacommunications.com ; Janice Goveas, Tata
Communications, +91-92233-94575,
janice.goveas@tatacommunications.com ; Media Agency, STC Associates,
+1-212-725-1900 x204, kristen@stcassociates.com .