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Thursday, Mar 03, 2005
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Telecommunications VSNL UK affiliate starts wholesale voice services Our Bureau
Mumbai , March 2 VIDESH Sanchar Nigam Ltd's UK affiliate, VSNL UK Ltd, has launched a wholesale voice services in Europe for termination to India. The service is intended to support the expansion of VSNL's international voice business, said a news release from the company. VSNL UK is focused on selling to European carriers seeking Indian termination service, it said. "Currently companies in 18 countries look to VSNL UK as a vehicle to connect with India. Through a strategic partnership with Interoute utilising their Virtual Voice Network, VSNL is able to provide next generation voice services using TDM or VoIP for interconnection." "Our goal is to rapidly expand our wholesale voices services so that we can effectively enable enterprise customers and retail voice carriers to reach India," said Claude Sassoulas, Head of European Region VSNL UK Ltd. VSNL UK has interconnected with a number of leading regional and alternative telecom operators across Europe to terminate their India-bound traffic and offers the advantages of flexible agreements and charging methods to meet the needs of the wholesale voice market. "We anticipate having 60 carrier interconnects operational by the end of March 2005," said Mr Satish Bangara, VSNL Vice-President of International Voice Services. "In January 2005, the first full month of operations, VSNL UK reached an annualised run rate of 40 million minutes."
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