| | By Subhankar Kundu @ Thursday, March 19, 2009 10:53 AM
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| | Telecom giant AT&T has announced that its India businesses are going to benefit from its 2009 global investment plans of $1 billion in the enterprise sphere.
 The telecom major today said that its operations in India will see a number of enhancements in the network infrastructure and a considerable part of the investment will come to India.
However, AT&T officials have declined to give a regional basis breakdown of the plan.
AT&T India chairman & CEO, V S Gopi Gopinath said, “We can’t break down the numbers but the plans are to expand in India and that has to come through investments. India is critically important market for our enterprise customers and to AT&T. India is a major focus for development in network capability.”
“We have been doing well in Asia Pacific and when it comes to numbers, India has the highest share. We hope to maintain that even in the future.'
AT&T has recently separated its India business from Asia Pacific.
In the last quarter, AT&T India recorded a revenue growth of 27 per cent. The primary focus has been on the areas of managed network services. The company is also banking on its tele-presence offering.
The newly-opened 5000 square feet data centre in Bangalore will offer data centre hosting services but the company has not yet disclosed its customers' details.
However, AT& T is hopeful about the success in the India data centre. It said it will meet the undisclosed target by the end of 2009.
Gopinath said, “The establishment of AT&T India data centre in Bangalore and the introduction of global managed internet service (GMIS) are among the milestones in our expansion road-map that aims to strengthen the linkage between India and our comprehensive infrastructure in other parts of the world”.
AT&T India managing director, Sanjiv Bhagat said, “We would expand the data centre but it depends on customers’ needs and requirements”.
The company is also rolling out a couple of sub marine cables – Trans-pacific express (TPC) and Europe-India gateway (EIG). EIG will connect India to the United Kingdom while TPC will connect Hong Kong, China, Japan and Korea to United States.
The sub marine cable will be operational by next year, the company confirmed.
AT&T has above 1,000 employees across six locations in India. X
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