Top ILD Players

Tata Comm Rcom Bharti BSNL Vodafone BT Aircel Verizon AT&T Idea C&W Sify Equant Singtel Tulip marine cable system connecting Chennai and Mumbai to Singapore and Europe.

Bharti also has investments in new cable systems such as Asia America Gateway (AAG), India Middle East & Western Europe (IMEWE), Unity, EIG (Europe India Gateway) and East Africa Submarine System (EASSy) expanding their global network to over 225,000 Rkms, covering 50 countries across 5 continents.

airtel also has terrestrial express connectivity to neighboring countries including Nepal, Pakistan, Bhutan, and China.

Reliance Communications is providing carrier’s carrier voice, carrier’s carrier bandwidth, enterprise data, and consumer voice services. The company performed fairly well in the ILM business.

Currently, RCom has over 2.5 mn customers and its international data business is underpinned by its ownership of the largest private submarine cable system in the world, directly connecting 40 countries from the east coast of the United States, to Europe, the Middle East, India, South and East Asia, through to Japan.

As part of its wholesale offering, RCom offers national and international (submarine cable) network infrastructure on both an Indefeasible Right of Use (IRU) and leased circuit basis, internet bandwidth, IPLC to carriers, ISPs, content providers, and enterprises globally.

Idea Cellular made significant progress in rolling out its long distance network. According to the company, as at end-March, 2012, it carried over 93% of its captive NLM and ILM outgoing traffic.

SingTel recently announced to open 5 new PoPs in India. Today SingTel, through SGIPL, has got 7 PoPs in India, namely, New Melhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Pune, and Oolkata. They are building their 2nd PoPs in Mumbai, Chennai, and Bengaluru.

British telecom has focussed elaborately on current and planned network infrastructure investments. BT still relies on its world class MPLS backbone to drive revenue in region, currently circa 45%. The recent investment in an expanded portfolio and cloud services has led to the remainder 55% of revenue coming from value added services, integration solutions and professional services.

British Telecom has existing MPLS POPs in Melhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Bangalore, Oolkata, Pune and Hyderabad. The company plans to open new MPLS POP in gurgaon in quarter four of FY13. British telecom has access partners- Bharti, Tata Communications, TTSL, Tata Teleservices Maharashtra, Reliance Communications