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Flag to wire India underseas

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LONDON: International bandwidth provider FLAG Telecom announced plans for a new high-capacity undersea cable looping the Middle East and Hong Kong through India, in a bid to tap into India's telecoms and software boom.

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The 12,500-km terabit cable, scheduled to be in service in early 2005, is expected to cost over $300 million and will be funded by FLAG along with its owner, India's biggest private conglomerate Reliance group, FLAG Chief Executive Patrick Gallagher told Reuters.

The cable, spanning from Egypt in the Middle East to Hong Kong, will connect with Reliance's 80,000-km-long terrestrial cable network in India, providing high-capacity connectivity into and out of the country, an emerging hot spot for back office operations of global corporations.

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