Tata Communications Announces Expansion of Data Centre Services With Launch of Tier-3 Data Centre in EMEA Market

London (ots/PRNewswire) -

- Demand for UK Data Centre Services Soars as Enterprises Look to
Reduce Costs Worldwide

Tata Communications, a leading provider of a new world of
communications, announces it plans for London 2, a Tier-3 data
centre, that will provide a state-of-the-art environment for
supporting mission critical infrastructures, with advanced cooling,
power, redundancy, and sustainability features to ensure that Tata
Communications client's critical systems and applications are readily
available while optimizing energy efficiency. The 21,400 square foot
London 2 data centre will be ready for service during the second
quarter of 2009.

Tata Communications has seen a dramatic growth in the number of
UK companies looking to outsource their hosted IT operations as they
look to rationalise costs and free up capital. Increasingly, the lack
of power in the City of London has seen many firms seek to move
operations outside the M25 and into a managed service environment to
lower their cost of ownership, improve performance and reduce
downtime of their IT investment. Moreover, a shift to an Opex-based
hosting model by selectively outsourcing their IT infrastructure to
an experienced services provider such as Tata Communications can
achieve rapid cost savings.

Tata Communications will offer its full suite of data centre
services including colocation, managed hosting and managed storage
services, in addition to related and complementary value-added
services. The company's data centre operations and services are
monitored and managed on-site and remotely, from its centralized
Managed Services Operations Centre (MSOC) on a 24x7x365 basis and by
a team of highly experienced technical, communications and facilities
staff. Tata Communications is ISO/IEC 14001, 20000 and 27001
certified for its Global Managed Services Operations in the areas of
Managed Hosting, Managed Storage Services and Hosted Messaging
Services. The London 2 data centre will reside on Tata Communications
Tier-1 IP backbone from which it can provide high capacity Internet,
MPLS and Ethernet services globally.

"Tata Communications has seen a rapid increase in demand for
managed IT infrastructure services in the EMEA region, driven in part
by rationalising IT budgets and companies looking to outsource their
data centre operations and achieve greater cost and resource
efficiencies," said Abid Qadiri, Vice President of Data Centre
Services for Tata Communications. "As the availability of highly
secure Tier-3 data centre space is limited, we are pleased to bring
this state-of-the-art facility to the market."

Located 25 miles from London, the highly secure data centre
facility was built by Digital Realty Trust, the world's largest
wholesale data centre provider, and contains two individually
segregated, maintainable data halls that receive six megawatts of
power from diversely routed supplies. As Tata Communications third
data centre opened in the UK, London 2 brings the company's total
data centre footprint in the region to over 50,000 square feet. The
company owns and operates data centres on three continents totalling
nearly one million square feet of space.

On February 12, Tata Communications' announced plans to invest
USD $180 million in development of data centre and associated
services in Singapore,
(http://www.tatacommunications.com/news/release-view.asp?d=20090212-
investment) scheduled to open in 2010. (Due to the length of this
URL, it may be necessary to copy and paste this hyperlink into your
Internet browser's URL address field. Remove the space if one
exists.) The addition of London 2 and the Singapore data centre are
part of the global expansion to address demands of enterprise
customers worldwide, while supporting Tata Communications' commitment
to invest more than $2 billion to further fuel global expansion
plans.

For further information on Tata Communications Data Centre
Solutions and facilities visit
http://www.tatacommunications.com/enterprise/datacenter.

For more information on London 2 visit http://www.tatacommunicati
ons.com/downloads/enterprise/data-center-london.pdf

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 centre and colocation
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 fulfilment 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:
Andrew Faupel
Tata Communications
+44(0)7833-482329
andrew.faupel@tatacommunications.com
Janice Goveas
Tata Communications
+91-92233-94575
janice.goveas@tatacommunications.com
Media Agency
STC Associates
+1-646-214-6545
kristen@stcassociates.com

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Contact:
Media Contacts: Andrew Faupel, Tata Communications,
+44(0)7833-482329, andrew.faupel@tatacommunications.com; Janice
Goveas, Tata Communications, +91-92233-94575,
janice.goveas@tatacommunications.com; Media Agency, STC Associates,
+1-646-214-6545, kristen@stcassociates.com