With
Bharti joining the new undersea cable project,
international bandwidth requirements in India
may soon be met to a great extent. Bharti has
signed an agreement to join the South East Asia-Middle
East-Western Europe-4 (SEA-ME-WE-4) consortium,
along with 15 global telecom operators, to develop
and own the next generation undersea cable system.
The new cable system is expected to get completed
by the third quarter of ’05 and would support
telephone, internet, multimedia and various other
broadband and data applications. Bharti would
be investing $40 mn in the project estimated to
cost $0.5 bn. The cable system would give a major
boost to the broadband and data requirements of
a significant population along its route between
Singapore and France via India.
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system an edge in servicing the demand for international
bandwidth in India. The cable system would cover
some 20,000 km across the eastern and western world,
to achieve ultra fast terabit per second connectivity
and would land in the countries, including Singapore,
Malaysia, Thailand, Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka,
Pakistan, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Italy and France
among others. The SEA-ME-WE-4 would complement the
Network i2i cable by providing redundancy to its
international voice and data services. |
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