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Our Bureau New Delhi, May 7 In a bid to address rising demand for international bandwidth in the country, Bharti Airtel has joined 15 other global telecommunication majors to build a new undersea cable connecting India to the UK. The 15,000-km Europe India Gateway (EIG) cable system will cost more than $ 700 million and will connect 13 countries across three continents. The cable is expected to carry commercial traffic by second quarter 2010. This is the sixth undersea cable in which Bharti will be investing. According to Mr David Nishball, President, Enterprise Services, Bharti Airtel Ltd, “There is a tremendous rise in use of data and broadband applications among enterprises and consumers globally, and India is no exception. Bharti now has enough capacity to take care of our consumer bandwidth requirements till 2015.” The new cable system will compliment Airtel’s existing high bandwidth cables and its recent investments in the I-ME-WE, Unity Cable system and Asia America Gateway cable systems. The company currently has two international landing stations in Chennai that connect its two existing submarine cable systems - i2i to Singapore and SEA-ME-WE-4 to Europe, and is building an additional cable landing station in Mumbai to land the SEA-ME-WE-4 cable. Mr Nishball added that Bharti will be investing in other cable systems going forward. Airtel is the only Indian service provider to be a part of this new consortium, and will be operating the cable landing station in Mumbai. The other members of the EIG cable consortium include AT&T, BT, C&W, Djibouti Telecom, Du, Gibtelecom, IAM, Libyan Telecom, MTN Group Ltd., Omantel, PT Comunicações-S.A, Saudi Telecom Company, Telecom Egypt, Telkom SA Ltd, and Verizon Business. The cable system is designed to provide up to 3.84 terabits (Tbps). The EIG consortium has signed construction and supply agreements with Alcatel-Lucent and Tyco Telecommunications. Alternative routeMr Nishball said the new cable will provide an alternative route for traffic between India and Europe which will take care of eventualities like the recent cable cut on Se-Me-We-4. The EIG cable will run through the UK, Portugal, Gibraltar, Morocco, Monaco, France, Libya, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Djibouti, Oman and the UAE. The EIG cable system will also provide seamless interconnection with other major cable systems connecting Europe, Africa, Asia and North America. More Stories on : Telecommunications | Bharti Tele-Ventures Ltd
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