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Bharti and SingTel undersea cable network opened. (India).(Bharti Group and Singapore Telecommunications Ltd. have finished first phase of network)(Brief Article)
Asia Pacific Telecom, May, 2002
The Bharti Group and Singapore Telecommunications Ltd. (SingTel) have marked the completion of the first phase of $650 million Singapore-India undersea submarine cable network -- "i2i." This is the first private cable to link India and Singapore and the world's largest in terms of capacity. Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee and his Singapore counterpart Go Chok Tong made an inaugural call via the 3,200 km long "i2i" cable network to Tamil Nadu Governor P 5 Rammohan Rao in Chennai.
The submarine cable lands in Chennai in India and Tuas in Singapore and has been developed by Network i2i, a 50:5 0 joint venture between Bharti and SingTel at a cost of $250 million. Utilizing the latest DWDM technology, the 8.4 terabits cable system can support 130 million...
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