MUMBAI, India, October 16 /PRNewswire/ --

- Pay-Per-Use Public Rooms Available in Taj Hotels and Business Centres 
Around the World

MUMBAI, India, October 16 /PRNewswire/ --

Tata Communications, a leading provider of the new world of
communications, announced the launch of its telepresence rooms available for
public use in the United States and United Kingdom, linking to additional
public rooms in Mumbai, Bangalore and Chennai, India. The collaboration
between Tata Communications and Cisco is the first managed telepresence
service in the world to deliver public and private Cisco TelePresence rooms
to companies globally. This new service will allow companies and individuals
to use Cisco TelePresence for one-off meetings.

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Tata Communications is working with Cisco, Taj Hotels owner,
the Indian Hotels Company Limited, and the Confederation of India Industry
(CII) to offer public telepresence facilities which are available for rent on
an hourly basis. The first phase of public rooms was launched in India in
July at the Taj Hotels in Mumbai and Bangalore, and CII offices in Bangalore
and Chennai. Tata plans to make 100 rooms available globally by the end of
2009.

Cisco today also introduced a dedicated public Cisco TelePresence suites
facility in Santa Clara, California.

"With this innovative service offering, Tata Communications is
not only adding value to its business and that of its customers, but
revolutionising business altogether," said Tata Communications, Chief
Operating Officer, Vinod Kumar. "This groundbreaking innovation enables our
global customers to join a wider ecosystem of users via public access rooms
allowing them to not only communicate virtually in real-time but providing
a cost-effective and eco-friendly solution."

The public room offering creates a larger network of
interconnected rooms and expands the telepresence market to small and
mid-sized businesses. Tata Communications' managed service offers a
professionally run concierge service that handles reservations, scheduling,
customer support, monitoring, management, reporting and billing capabilities.
These services provide organizations with the ease and speed to deploy and
manage highly collaborative tools more effectively. The public room offering
is also certified as a world class network solution, which further helps
ensure high levels of reliability and availability.

"Public Cisco TelePresence rooms provide global organisations
with a cost effective way to connect in virtual 'in person' meetings with key
customers, partners and suppliers around the globe. Our objective was to
collaborate with a company to launch a unique Cisco TelePresence solution
that was innovative, yet reliable and cost effective for businesses whatever
their size," said Cisco Chief Globalisation Officer, Wim Elfrink. "Working
with Tata Communications offers customers extensive coverage in a
user-friendly managed service, and has the potential to help small to medium
businesses develop more globalised business models. These Public Cisco
TelePresence rooms join a Cisco TelePresence ecosystem that almost 300 rooms
internal to Cisco and more than 1,000 rooms installed by over 200 customers.
Cisco TelePresence is now represented in over 60 countries worldwide."

Cisco TelePresence provides life-like, high definition,
conferencing facilities with superior audio, video and environmental
qualities allowing participants to meet their colleagues, customers and
business partners across a virtual table. Cisco TelePresence use also
contributes towards a company's environmental responsibility, enabling it to
lower overall CO2 emissions by reducing the need for travel.

"It is our constant endeavour to provide state-of-the-art
value-added services to our customers. With the telepresence facility, we
will be one of the first hospitality companies worldwide to offer this kind
of cutting edge technology. We are happy to announce that this facility will
be available at Taj Hotels Resorts and Palaces' properties in Mumbai,
Bangalore, New York, Boston and London," said Mr. Raymond Bickson, managing
director, Indian Hotels Corporation Ltd.

Tata Communications have plans to open additional rooms in Hyderabad,
Gurgaon, and New York later this year, with a more extensive global rollout
of 100 rooms planned to be deployed by 2009.

For further information on Tata Communications Telepresence
Services visit http://www.tatacommunications.com/telepresence

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 center and co-location
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
fulfillment 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:

    Lee Ann Lim,
    Tata Communications,
    +1-703-999-1726,
    Leeann.lim@tatacommunications.com ;

    Janice Goveas, 
    Tata Communications,  
    +91-92233-94575, 
    janice.goveas@tatacommunications.com ;

    Media Agency,
    STC Associates,
    +1-212-725-1900 x204,
    kristen@stcassociates.com .