Indiantelevision.com Team

(5 September 2006 5:00 pm)

MUMBAI: Reliance Communications owned Falcon Undersea Cable System has started its operational from today unleashing international bandwidth between India, Middle East and Europe.

The Flag Telecom Global Network would be the world's largest undersea cable system covering 65,000 route kms, with the launch of Falcon. The current bandwidth on India-Europe route is controlled by VSNL and Bharti.

"Falcon will have an equally powerful impact on the economic front, driving higher levels of trade, commerce and global integration," Reliance ADA chairman Anil Ambani said.

The vision at Reliance ADA group is to 'give millions of ordinary people across the world the means to realize their dreams, the power to shape their destiny, the chance to fulfill their true and diverse potential," Ambani added.

The Flag Global Network bridges the distance between 35 diverse developed and developing economies, connecting the global economic hubs in USA, UK, Germany, France, Middle East, India, Hong Kong, Singapore, China and Japan to name a few.

The Company's Flag is the first global network of this scale to provide integrated connectivity on one seamless network to the three highest growing regions; India, Middle East and China; in terms of international bandwidth demand.