TV5MONDE Selects Tata Communications' Content Delivery Network Services to Reach Global Audience in Real-Time

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Tata Communications, a leading provider of a new world of
communications, and TV5MONDE, the leading global French language
network, have announced that TV5MONDE has selected Tata
Communications' LiveBroadcast service to distribute key events in
real-time via the Internet. LiveBroadcast, a high-quality,
flash-based streaming service, will provide TV5 with the necessary
resources and scalability to support their quickly growing audience
and support the constant and dynamic flow of content. With a reach of
more than 180 million households, TV5 has extended their 10-year long
relationship with Tata Communications to deliver Live Internet
content as the channel increases their Web portfolio.

Tata Communications' CDN service delivers among the highest
performance and reliability in the industry while providing immediate
access to content, including High-Definition Video, without delay or
jitter. With more than 300 points of presence worldwide, Tata
Communications offers the first truly global CDN service on a
state-of-the-art, single ASN global IP network. Through the
LiveBroadcast offering, Tata Communications will provide an
end-to-end solution that will replicate and distribute content,
within a two- to four-second delay, using the company's extensive
Tier-1 IP backbone.

"As one of the largest global television networks, TV5 sought out
at solution that would allow them to deliver the most widespread
video format on the Internet while displaying the shortest delay
between signals, key benefits of Tata Communications' CDN services,"
says Genius Wong, Senior Vice President, Global IP and VPN Services,
Tata Communications. "Our company's extensive network backbone and
innovative way of broadcasting multimedia content via the Internet,
allows TV5, as well as other broadcasters and large content
providers, worldwide to seamlessly relay programming at unparalleled
speed and quality."

Tata Communications has supplied TV5 with telecom products and
services since 1999. During the recent U.S. presidential election,
TV5 added LiveTV to their Internet portfolio. With less than a week
to the broadcast of the first Obama vs. McCain debate, Tata
Communications managed to provision the end-to-end solution and have
it running flawlessly; thus, solidifying Tata Communications and
TV5's collaboration through the delivery of LiveTV.

"Following the quick turnaround and successful deployment of
services during the US presidential campaigns, Tata Communications
became the obvious choice to continue to best support and deliver our
content with an unmatched user experience," said Jean Pierre Verines,
CTO for TV5MONDE. "Tata Communications' broad global presence coupled
with their commercial and technical flexibility best matched our
vision and facilitated our move into the online distribution arena."

Using a solution that relies on the same Distributed Origin
technology as the one used in its CDN to deliver Flash/H264 Video On
Demand services, incoming Live Streams are simultaneously replicated
on every delivery node instantly by taking advantage of Tata
Communications' oversized Tier-1 IP backbone. Since no proprietary
live server-based solution is used, the LiveBroadcast service can
scale to handle any live event without requiring additional server
rollout.

In addition to LiveBroadcast, the Tata Communications suite of
CDN services powered by BitGravity includes Tata Communications CDN,
a next- generation CDN designed for a wide range of applications
providing the highest performance and reliability on a global scale;
and Tata Communications CDN Plus and CDN Secure, add value designed
for the distribution and protection of media assets.

About Tata Communications

Tata Communications, a member of the $62.5 billion Tata Group, is
a leading global provider of a new world of communications. The
emerging markets communications leader leverages its advanced
solutions capabilities and domain expertise across its global and
pan-India network to deliver managed solutions to multi-national and
Indian enterprises, service providers and Indian consumers.

Tata Communications' range of services include transmission, IP,
converged voice, mobility, managed network connectivity, hosting and
storage, managed security, managed collaboration and business
transformation for global enterprises and service providers, as well
as Internet, retail broadband and content services for Indian
consumers. The Tata Global Network encompasses one of the most
advanced and largest submarine cable networks, a Tier-1 IP network,
with connectivity to more than 200 countries across 300 Pops, and
more than 1 million square feet of data centre and colocation
facilities.

Tata Communications' unique emerging market depth and breadth of
reach includes a national fiber backbone network and access to
network in over 60 cities and 125 Pops in India, strategic
investments in South African converged services operator, Neotel, Sri
Lanka and Nepal and, subject to fulfilment of conditions precedent, a
50% ownership in China Enterprise Communications (CEC) providing full
country VPN coverage in China.

Servicing customers from its offices in over 80 cities in 40
countries, Tata Communications is the number one global international
wholesale voice operator and number one provider of international
long distance, enterprise data and Internet services in India, the
Company was named "Best Wholesale Carrier" at the World
Communications Awards in 2006, "Best Pan-Asian Wholesale Provider" at
the 2006 and 2007 Capacity Magazine Global Wholesale
Telecommunications Awards and was awarded "Best Progress in Emerging
Markets" at the 2008 Mobile Communication Awards.

Tata Communications Limited is listed on the Bombay Stock
Exchange and the National Stock Exchange of India and its ADRs are
listed on the New York Stock Exchange. (NYSE: TCL)

Forward-looking and cautionary statements

Certain words and statements in this release concerning Tata
Communications and its prospects, and other statements, including
those relating to Tata Communications' expected financial position,
business strategy, the future development of Tata Communications'
operations, and the general economy in India, are forward-looking
statements. Such statements involve known and unknown risks,
uncertainties and other factors, including financial, regulatory and
environmental, as well as those relating to industry growth and trend
projections, which may cause actual results, performance or
achievements of Tata Communications, or industry results, to differ
materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking
statements. The important factors that could cause actual results,
performance or achievements to differ materially from such
forward-looking statements include, among others, failure to increase
the volume of traffic on Tata Communications' network; failure to
develop new products and services that meet customer demands and
generate acceptable margins; failure to successfully complete
commercial testing of new technology and information systems to
support new products and services, including voice transmission
services; failure to stabilize or reduce the rate of price
compression on certain of the company's communications services;
failure to integrate strategic acquisitions and changes in government
policies or regulations of India and, in particular, changes relating
to the administration of Tata Communications' industry; and, in
general, the economic, business and credit conditions in India.
Additional factors that could cause actual results, performance or
achievements to differ materially from such forward-looking
statements, many of which are not in Tata Communications' control,
include, but are not limited to, those risk factors discussed in Tata
Communications' various filings with the United States Securities and
Exchange Commission. These filings are available at
http://www.sec.gov. Tata Communications is under no obligation to,
and expressly disclaims any obligation to, update or alter its
forward-looking statements.

Media Contacts:
Guy Coallier
Tata Communications
+1-514-868-7544
guy.coallier@tatacommunications.com
S Ravindran
Tata Communications
+91-9223306610
Ravindran.s@tatacommunications.com
STC Associates
+65-91681147
Vetriveal@stcassociates.com

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Contact:
Media Contacts: Guy Coallier, Tata Communications, +1-514-868-7544,
guy.coallier@tatacommunications.com; S Ravindran, Tata
Communications, +91-9223306610, Ravindran.s@tatacommunications.com;
STC Associates, +65-91681147, Vetriveal@stcassociates.com