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PRESS RELEASEFor immediate release

Tata Communications Wins Capacity Magazines Best Global Wholesale Offering

Award 2009

Leading trade publication affirms the global service providers leadership in developing anddelivering international wholesale solutions

London November 24, 2009 - Tata Communications, a leading provider of a new world ofcommunications, today announced that it has received the Best Global Wholesale Offering Award fromCapacity magazine. This prestigious accolade from Capacity magazine, one of the most importantpublications for telecommunications carriers and service providers, testifies to Tata Communicationsleadership in the development and implementation of its wholesale strategy.

The judging panel comprising senior Capacity editorial staff as well as a range of senior industry analystsrecognized Tata Communications pole position in the wholesale business, which is anchored by a globe-

spanning network of submarine and terrestrial cables with over 300 PoPs, and reaching to over 240countries and territories.

Capacity magazines Global Wholesale Telecommunications Awards recognise the achievements ofleading players in the wholesale telecoms industry. The awards were announced on Nov 23 at theCapacity Europe 2009 event in Amsterdam, at a reception attended by over 400 senior industryexecutives.

Tata Communications impressed in all the judging categories for the award from its solutions approach,quality and performance of the network, reach, speed to market, pricing strategy as well as investment intheir network, said Matthew Whalley, editor of Capacity magazine]. The company has shown itself to bea leader in voice communications and active in looking at new services and propositions across thewholesale market. The Tata Communications wholesale business services more than 1,600 carrier

customers, 480 direct connect relationships, 785 mobile operators and 700 VoIP providers with a wideportfolio of innovative solutions to address the specific needs of each segment of our industry mobileoperators, broadband providers, new portal players, retail service providers and wholesale carriersworldwide.

Earlier in June, Tata Communications was also made BTs primary voice supplier of International DirectDial outside of BTs footprint countries exemplifying Tata Communications ability to meet serviceproviders global communication needs and help them focus on their core business while gaining largeeconomies of scale.

Media Contacts:Isabelle TurcotteTata Communications+ 1 514 868 [email protected]

Janice GoveasTata Communications+91 92233 [email protected]

Danny LimHill & Knowlton Singapore for TataCommunications+65 6390 [email protected]


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Other achievements that helped Tata Communications win the award included its completion of the TataGlobal Network Intra-Asia (TGN-IA) cable which provides route diversity in Asia and increased capacity tothe Philippines and Vietnam, and its role in the launch of the SEACOM cable, the first to provideconnectivity down the East coast of Africa. Tata Communications also deployed a global Sonus-basednext-generation network, launched portability-corrected routing to 12 of the largest and most populardestinations, and rolled out the industrys first global wholesale carrier-offered voice peering service.

This years award is a timely recognition for Tata Communications suite of wholesale solution offeringswhich is backed by the industry most advanced voice routing systems, a Tier-1 IP backbone and our very

own TGN cable system that assures high redundancy, solid resilience and low latency, said MichelGuyot, President, Global Voice Solutions, Tata Communications Our strategy and our investment indeveloping industry leading wholesale solutions have translated into valuable expertise and substantialcost savings for our customers.

About Tata Communications

Tata Communications is a leading global provider of a new world of communications. With a leadership position in emergingmarkets, Tata Communications leverages its advanced solutions capabilities and domain expertise across its global and pan-Indianetwork to deliver managed solutions to multi-national enterprises, service providers and Indian consumers.

The Tata Global Network includes one of the most advanced and largest submarine cable networks, a Tier-1 IP network, withconnectivity to more than 200 countries across 400 PoPs, and nearly 1 million square feet of data center and collocation spaceworldwide.

Tata Communications depth and breadth of reach in emerging markets includes leadership in Indian enterprise data services,leadership in global international voice, and strategic investments in operators in South Africa (Neotel), Sri Lanka (TataCommunications Lanka Limited), Nepal (United Telecom Limited), and subject to approval by the Chinese government, China(China Enterprise Communications)

Tata Communications Limited is listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange and the National Stock Exchange of India and its ADRs arelisted on the New York Stock Exchange. (NYSE: TCL)www.tatacommunications.com

Forward-looking and cautionary statements

Certain words and statements in this release concerning Tata Communications and its prospects, and other statements, includingthose relating to Tata Communications expected financial position, business strategy, the future development of TataCommunications operations, and the general economy in India, are forward-looking statements. Such statements involve knownand unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors, including financial, regulatory and environmental, as well as those relating toindustry 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 thatcould cause actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially from such forward-looking statements include, amongothers, failure to increase the volume of traffic on Tata Communications network; failure to develop new products and services thatmeet customer demands and generate acceptable margins; failure to successfully complete commercial testing of new technologyand information systems to support new products and services, including voice transmission services; failure to stabilize or reducethe rate of price compression on certain of the companys communications services; failure to integrate strategic acquisitions andchanges in government policies or regulations of India and, in particular, changes relating to the administration of TataCommunications industry; and, in general, the economic, business and credit conditions in India. Additional factors that could causeactual results, performance or achievements to differ materially from such forward-looking statements, many of which are not in TataCommunications control, include, but are not limited to, those risk factors discussed in Tata Communications various filings with theUnited States Securities and Exchange Commission. These filings are available at www.sec.gov. Tata Communications is under noobligation to, and expressly disclaims any obligation to, updates or alters its forward-looking statements.


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