The Tatas-controlled Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd on Monday announced that it has set up international headquarters in Singapore as part of plans to expand business beyond India.
This follows the establishment of the VSNL International Business Group in April this year.
Moving forward, VSNL International is planning to increase its staff and operations to more than eight offices and 100 employees in the near future, the company said in a communication to the stock exchange.
VSNL is also building a new terabit level cable, called Tata Indicom Cable, between India and Singapore, which would be ready for use by October this year.
When completed, the new 3,175 km Tata Indicom submarine cable system will run between Chennai and Singapore and will be scaleable to a capacity of 5.12 Tbps and it will be 100 per cent owned by Tatas, the company said.
Initially, Tata Indicom will be able to offer 320 giga bits per seconds speed once the commercial operation commences in the fourth quarter of this financial year and the project has been designed to scale it up to 5.12 terabits.
"This new capacity will augment our existing capacity with two other existing routes from Mumbai and Eranakulam that offer international bandwidth to our customers. This will also help us to become the total integrated telecom service provider," the company said.
With VSNL's plans to spread its national long distance operations aggressively across the country, the undersea cable project would give the company the required international bandwidth to offer voice as well data services to its customers.
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