Bharti Airtel Intros Int'l Ethernet

NEW DELHI -- Bharti Airtel, Asia’s leading integrated telecom services provider today announced the launch of Ethernet services in more than 25 global cities across Asia, Europe, North America and Australia. As a promotional offer, Bharti Airtel is offering 'One Capacity One Price' to US, UK, Singapore and Hong Kong to both the Enterprise and Wholesale customers. The launch of the Global Ethernet Service Portfolio by Bharti Airtel is part of its strategy to become a truly global service provider with wide range of product offerings.

Ethernet offers overall connectivity as it simplifies customer-network integration and provides increased flexibility in choosing the bandwidth. It is emerging as the most secure medium for future high speed connectivity.

Ajay Chitkara, CEO, Global Data Business, Bharti Airtel said, "Customers and partners can take the advantage of this 'One Capacity One Price' model and reach of Bharti Airtel network to meet their high speed connectivity requirements and achieve cost efficiency. It will help ease our partners offerings to their end customers, utilizing the economies of scale from Bharti Airtel’s global network infrastructure. We are also enhancing the service features to meet various needs of different sets of our customers. These services which are built on our global network will offer unparalleled cost advantage to our customers."

Bharti Airtel will deliver its global Ethernet services on the back of its extensive network of owned PoPs and partnerships with international carriers, thereby leveraging the extensive submarine network that offers multiple restoration paths for rerouting traffic in case of exigencies.

Bharti Airtel Ltd. (Mumbai: BHARTIARTL)