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As the country's leader in International Long Distance services and with a strong pan-India National Long Distance presence, VSNL is the leader in the Corporate Data Market in the country today with a strong service offering covering IPLCs,
ILLs, Frame relay, ATM and MPLS based IP-VPN services. With established relations with over 80 carriers across the globe, VSNL today has a strong infrastructure base that covers multiple gateways, earth stations and submarine cable systems.

VSNL's business is broadly divided into four categories -

a) Wholesale Businesses - consisting of National Long Distance and International Long Distance services.

b) Corporate Businesses - consisting of IPLC, ILL, MDNS, VPN, Video Conferencing, Inmarsat, ISDN, Corporate Dial-up, TV Uplinking, Data Center & other services.

c) Retail Businesses - consisting of Internet dial-up, Broadband & Calling Cards.

d) International Business - these comprise of the businesses being carried out by overseas subsidiaries of VSNL and their subsidiaries.

Tata - managed VSNL is now rapidly growing its retail and corporate presence under the Tata Indicom brand through its products like High Speed Broadband, Dial-Up Internet, Net Telephony and Calling Cards, and has an internet subscriber base of over 8,00,000 subscribers. The Company also proposes to consolidate its presence in the Internet space by increasing its impetus on the Retail Broadband business. VSNL also offers a host of other valued added services that include Television / Video uplinking, Program transmission services, Frame relay services and Inmarsat services.

VSNL is in the process of expanding its global presence and is setting up operations in Sri Lanka, Singapore, Europe and the United States of America.Its international connectivity capabilities, both undersea as well as satellite, offer the greatest diversity in India, which is critical for all customer segments, encompassing wholesale, corporate and retail. The company is augmenting its international connectivity by setting up a 3175 km undersea cable between Chennai and Singapore with a designed capacity of 5.12 tera bits

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