Tata Communications Limited ) is a telecommunications company located in Mumbai

Mumbai

Mumbai , formerly known as Bombay in English, is the capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is the most populous city in India, and the fourth most populous city in the world, with a total metropolitan area population of approximately 20.5 million...

. They own a submarine cable network, a Tier-1 IP network, and also rent data center

Data center

A data center is a facility used to house computer systems and associated components, such as telecommunications and storage systems...

 and colocation space. They operate India

India

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's largest data center in Pune

Pune

Pune , is the eighth largest metropolis in India, the second largest in the state of Maharashtra after Mumbai, and the largest city in the Western Ghats. Once the centre of power of the Maratha Empire, it is situated 560 metres above sea level on the Deccan plateau at the confluence of the Mula ...

. Tata Communications acquired Teleglobe, a company based in Canada, and Dishnet, an Indian company, and is the largest shareholder in South African operator Neotel

Neotel

Neotel Ltd., previously SNO Telecommunications, is the second national operator for fixed line telecommunication services in South Africa. It was unveiled on August 31, 2006 in Kyalami in northern Johannesburg...

. Tata Communications currently has a cable network of more than 235,000 kilometers.

History

It was founded as VSNL (Videsh Sanchaar Nigam Limited) in 1986. On 13 February 2008 VSNL, formerly owned by the government, was taken over by the Tata Group

Tata Group

Tata Group is an Indian multinational conglomerate company headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. Tata Group is one of the largest companies in India by market capitalization and revenue. It has interests in communications and information technology, engineering, materials, services, energy,...

and renamed Tata Communications Ltd.

Subsidiaries

• Tata Communications Transformation Services (TCTS)
• Tata Communications Internet Services (TCIS)

Cloud Services

• InstaCompute - IAAS (Infrastructure As A Service)
• InstaOffice - SAAS (Software As A Service)