BT gets ILD, NLD licenses

BANGALORE: The Department of Telecommunications has granted international long distance and national long distance licenses to BT.

BT today said in a statement that these licenses enable its newly formed joint venture company, BT Telecom India Pvt. Ltd, to offer services for the first time directly to multisite corporate customers in the Indian market.

The firm plans to provide corporate customers who have sites in India with virtual private network-based (VPN) services using technologies such as Internet protocol-based multi-protocol label switching (MPLS) and ATM.

Dayanidhi Maran, minister of Communications and IT, Government of India, said: "To further promote investment into India and enhance business opportunities for Indian companies operating overseas, India must have the best and latest infrastructure. These licenses will allow BT to bring its 21 CN services to India’s IT and ITES sector and increasing their competitiveness through connectivity, availability, quality and responsiveness on a global scale.”

Andy Green, CEO, BT Global Services, expressed happiness over the development.

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