Monday, January 22, 2007

Indians to Bag Another Submarine Cable Network

Stuart Comer writes on ITWire.com.au:

India is fast becoming one of the world's largest owners of submarine cables, with news that Indian company Bharti Airtel is to acquire Singapore Telecom's share of their jointly-owned i2i network linking India and Singapore.

SingTel says it has reached commercial understanding with Bharti Airtel to sell its 49.99 interest in Network i2i Limited for $US55 million. Final details are yet to be worked and a further announcement will be made "as and when the parties execute definitive agreements."

i2i was announced in October 2000. It was to involve the construction of a $US650 million 8.4tbps loop system (then the highest capacity ever announced) linking India to Singapore with landfalls in Chennai (Madras) and Mumbai (Bombay). At the time this represented a 100 fold increase India's international cable capacity.

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