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Mumbai , Aug. 16

VIDESH Sanchar Nigam Ltd has reduced tariffs by up to 45 per cent on the Tata Indicom Cable, effective August 15.

The company said it is "continuing on the roadmap chalked out in 2002 for rationalising international bandwidth tariffs."

Calling its tariff reduction "aggressive," VSNL pointed out that it was the sixth tariff cut in the last four years.

"Prices of half circuit international private lines have come down from Rs 40 lakh in 2001 to Rs 11 lakh for E1 (2 Mbps), from Rs 725 lakh to Rs 114 lakh for DS3 (45 Mbps) and from Rs 2,100 lakh to Rs 330 lakh for STM-1 (155 Mbps)," said a news release from the company.

These prices are for restorable capacities between India and the US.

VSNL's recent initiatives of building the Tata Indicom Cable and completing the TGN acquisition have provided VSNL with greater control on international bandwidth cost components, said the release.

VSNL had already reduced prices by about 48 per cent on the Tata Indicom Cable in the six months since the cable was put into service, it said.

In July, VSNL completed the acquisition of TGN, a global submarine cable system.

VSNL operates nearly 340 GBPS of undersea cable capacities landing in India.

The total undersea cable network of VSNL spans over 60,000 km across four continents and is among the largest cable networks in the world.

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