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Janice Goveas Danny Lim
Tata Communications Hill & Knowlton Singapore for Tata
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Janice.Goveas@tatacommunications.com +65 6390 3360
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Tata Communications maximizes digital media opportunities in the


new global Media & Entertainment ecosystem

Launch of Video Connect – a dedicated global video network


Acquisition of BT’s Mosaic platform - enables digital media management and workflow
To invest around $50 million in the GMES group over two years

Mumbai/ London – January 27, 2010 – Tata Communications, a leading provider of the new world of
communications, today announced its Global Media & Entertainment Solutions (GMES) group.

Tata Communications launched its dedicated global video network - Video Connect and unveiled its media
management platform – Mosaic – which Tata Communications recently acquired from BT Group plc. As part of the
GMES portfolio, Video Connect and Mosaic - will complement Tata Communications’ existing Media and
Entertainment services, offering media companies an integrated end-to-end solution that enables global collaboration
across the media ecosystem.

Through the GMES group, Tata Communications aims to maximize the opportunities that digital media provides by
enabling end-to-end management, distribution and delivery of content over its lifecycle from production to distribution.
This makes Tata Communications a unique solutions provider, enabling collaboration and integration with various
partners in the Media ecosystem and offers a robust global media delivery infrastructure to reach the end-user.

The Media industry can thus address emerging challenges posed by globalization and the fragmented consumption
of media using Tata Communications’ portfolio.

Video Connect from Tata Communications


As the world’s most advanced dedicated global video network, Video Connect is designed to help broadcasters,
studios and production houses deliver video content flexibly and cost-effectively to media hotspots worldwide. By
leveraging Tata Communications’ global network infrastructure, Video Connect ensures permanent availability of
bandwidth and seamless transmission of video at constant bit rates.

Video Connect offers up to 99.999% uptime by providing auto re-routing on diverse and protected paths on both
primary route as well as “around-the-globe” over and above the basic triple-protected SDH network between Video
Connect PoPs. Thus there are 4 redundant and diverse paths between each of the 12 Video Connect nodes across
New York, Los Angeles, London, Hong Kong, Singapore, Tokyo, Sydney, Chennai, Mumbai, Pune, Delhi and
Hyderabad, as well as more downstream partners in each region PoP on the network.

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A dedicated video network operations center ensures round the clock system availability along with Video analytics to
provide reports on Video quality.

“Performance and price are the biggest challenges faced by online broadcasters today. Video Connect is designed to
help them address these two challenges – performance is guaranteed by time-tested DTM technology running atop
Tata Communications’ robust backbone, while cost effectiveness is brought about by the direct routing nature of the
network,” said Genius Wong, Sr. VP Network Services, Tata Communications

Broadcasters can expect further savings from Video Connect’s flexible pricing scheme as they can pick traffic
direction and purchase the exact bandwidth required for a specific amount of time, and be billed according to usage.
Video Connect’s on-demand and customization capabilities also allow broadcasters to activate the service for special
broadcasts and enable different feeds to be used for different time zones so that revenue streams can be created
from local advertising.

Tata Communications’ Mosaic Platform


The Tata Communications’ Mosaic platform, with its Cloud-based media management, helps media customers
improve cross-enterprise collaboration for content creation, management and multi-format delivery.

Mosaic enables enterprises to deliver innovative services that meet rapidly changing consumer demands, maintain
and expand audience numbers, provides flexibility of an open operating environment and lower production costs.
One of Mosaic’s unique capabilities is that it provides complete digital asset management, ensuring secure, efficient
access to content and workflow throughout the value chain, which is delivered as an online service over the web.

Mosaic’s service-oriented architecture enables media companies to monetize digital content more efficiently while
addressing the challenges of globalization and fragmented consumption of media faced by the industry.

The new service is targeted at the entire spectrum of media customers encompassing content creators, producers,
post-production houses, digital media publishers, content service providers and TV channels.

“The acquisition of the Mosaic platform strengthens our global media and entertainment portfolio with powerful cloud-
based digital media management applications that can be accessed over the Web. This enhances our existing
portfolio of services that we are offering to the media and entertainment sector. Tata Communications intends to
invest about $50 million to strengthen its media and entertainment portfolio over the next two years” said Vinod
Kumar, President and COO, Tata Communications “By integrating our global network infrastructure and managed
services portfolio with Mosaic’s digital media management capabilities, we are now able to create a unique platform
that can take care of content workflow from production to distribution across the world.”

Julian Wheeler, part of the Mosaic team at BT, now as VP Global Media & Entertainment, Tata Communications said
“As a team we’re extremely excited to join Tata Communications. By leveraging the power of Mosaic with Tata
Communications’ capabilities we intend to address the challenges being faced in the Media and Entertainment
market.”

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In addition to Video Connect and Mosaic, other services in Tata Communications’ GMES portfolio include Satellite
Broadcasting with TV Up-linking and Playout room capabilities, The GMES solutions are closely integrated with the
Tata Communications Global Media delivery infrastructure which include Content Delivery Network (CDN) service,
Managed services - Managed Security, Managed Hosting and Storage,, Ethernet and IPL capabilities. Tata
Communications’ current GMES customers include France’s TV5MONDE, India’s NDTV and Singapore’s IAH
Games.

For more information on Tata Communications GMES portfolio visit www.tatacommunications.com/GMES”

Related links:
Tata Communications expands capabilities in the Media and Entertainment sector with acquisition of BT Group plc's
Mosaic Business

About Tata Communications

Tata Communications is a leading global provider of a new world of communications. With a leadership position in emerging markets, Tata
Communications leverages its advanced solutions capabilities and domain expertise across its global and pan-India network 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, with connectivity to more
than 200 countries across 400 PoPs, and nearly 1 million square feet of data center and collocation space worldwide.

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 (Tata Communications 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 are listed on the
New York Stock Exchange. (NYSE: TCL)
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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 www.sec.gov. Tata Communications is under no obligation to, and expressly disclaims any obligation to, updates or alters its
forward-looking statements.

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