MUMBAI, India, September 9 /PRNewswire/ --

- The Kenya IP PoP Will Link East African Users to Europe and South 
Africa as well as to Asia and India via the SEACOM Cable System

Tata Communications, a leading provider of a new world of communications, 
and AccessKenya Group, Kenya's first publicly listed ICT company and leading 
corporate Internet service provider, today announced that they have signed a 
partnership agreement to establish a Tier 1 Internet Point-of-Presence (PoP) 
for Tata Communications in Nairobi, Kenya.

As a global Tier1 IP provider with 1.5Tbps meshed network
built on 10G backbones, Tata Communications is one of the world's leading
carriers of Internet traffic. Tata Communications is also the number one
provider out of Kenya for global internet connectivity to local carriers,
service providers and mobile operators *. By building a PoP in Kenya, Tata
Communications will be able to offer Internet and other service providers
access to one of the most dynamically routed and high performance global IP
networks for service delivery.

The IP PoP is configured to automatically offer redundant
paths for Internet traffic going north towards Europe and southwards to South
Africa well as to Asia and India over the SEACOM cable system. Should there
be a fiber cut on the route to London, for example, traffic will be diverted
through South Africa to ensure that customer services are not disrupted.

Besides resilience, service providers purchasing bandwidth
from the Kenya PoP will be able to benefit from the higher speeds and direct
links offered by the new connection. Previously, in order for service
providers in Kenya to offer Internet links to Asia or South Africa, they
needed to buy international fiber through a cable network to London, meaning
all traffic would be routed through London rather than through a more direct
route.

"We are delighted to have been chosen by Tata Communications
to partner with them for the establishment of the first Tier 1 Internet PoP
in Kenya " said Jonathan Somen, AccessKenya Group Managing Director. "Tata
Communications is one of the world's largest carriers of international data
traffic and for them to set up a PoP in Kenya puts us on the global
connectivity map. AccessKenya has already signed up as the first customer on
the jointly launched PoP to enable our customers to benefit from the new
connectivity."

Claude Sassoulas, Managing Director for Global Data Solutions
at Tata Communications, said: "Tata Communications is well established in the
African market and has been providing Internet access to ISPs for over 10
years in Kenya and other African countries, via the acquisition of Teleglobe.
We are pleased to be able to draw on AccessKenya's data expertise in the
establishment of the PoP."

* Renesys Market Intelligence - as of 2nd September 2009

About Tata Communications

Tata Communications is a leading global provider of a new
world of communications. With a leadership position in emerging markets, Tata
Communications leverages its advanced solutions capabilities and domain
expertise across its global and pan-India network to deliver managed
solutions to multi-national enterprises, service providers and Indian
consumers.

The Tata Global Network includes one of the most advanced and
largest submarine cable networks, a Tier-1 IP network, with connectivity to
more than 200 countries across 400 PoPs, and nearly 1 million square feet of
data center and collocation space worldwide.

Tata Communications' depth and breadth of reach in emerging
markets includes leadership in Indian enterprise data services, leadership in
global international voice, and strategic investments in operators in South
Africa (Neotel), Sri Lanka (Tata Communications Lanka Limited), Nepal (United
Telecom Limited), and subject to approval by the Chinese government, China
(China Enterprise Communications)

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)

http://www.tatacommunications.com

About AccessKenya

The AccessKenya Group is Kenya's first publicly listed ICT
company. The AccessKenya Group comprises AccessKenya, Kenya's leading
Corporate ISP, Broadband Access (BLUE), one of Kenya's largest Data Carrier
Network Operators (DCNO), and now Openview Business Systems, one of Kenya's
leading IT services providers. The Group currently has over 2800 corporate
leased lines across Kenya, over 1800 residential clients, employs in excess
of 300 people and has offices in Nairobi and Mombasa with representation in
Kisumu, Eldoret, Nakuru and Nyeri.

The Group has also grown on average by 75% per year, for the
last four years.

AccessKenya has numerous partnerships including Oracle, Cisco
(Premier Partner), Motorola, IBM (Premier Business Partner) and Net App Gold
Partner.

In 2008, AccessKenya was voted the Best ISP in Kenya while
Openview was awarded the 1st runner up solutions provider of the year by
Computer Society of Kenya. Other awards for AccessKenya include three awards
at the COYA awards including Runner Up Company of the Year SME Sector, and
two further COYA awards in 2007. Openview is ISO certified and has won the
CSK IT solution provider of the year in 2005, 2006 and 2007.

The Group's key products include Access@Home, @Home in Kenya
Portal, Yello, GO, Broadband Max 2 and Bundu as well as numerous value added
services including web hosting, collocation, disaster recovery, antivirus,
Antispam, managed services, networking, software and IT services solutions.

AccessKenya Group has the largest Motorola Canopy wireless
network in Africa, the largest Wi Max network in Kenya and has completed of
one of the two largest metro fibre networks in Kenya - encompassing over 250
buildings in Nairobi.

Companies within the AccessKenya Group currently hold four
licenses from CCK including DCNO, ISP, PDNO, and Local Loop Operator
licenses.

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 www.sec.gov. Tata Communications is under no
obligation to, and expressly disclaims any obligation to, updates or alters
its forward-looking statements

Media Contacts:
    Nancy Imunde                     Janice Goveas                        
    AccessKenya Group                Tata Communications                
    +254-755456                      +91-92233-94575                      
    nancyi@accesskenya.com           Janice.Goveas@tatacommunications.com 
   
    David Chin
    Hill & Knowlton
    +65-96945589
    david.chin@hillandknowlton.com.sg