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Flag oversold capacity on its undersea cable: VSNL
Mumbai, Dec 07: The bandwidth pricing war in India is hotting up with Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd alleging that Flag Telecom Holdings Ltd has `oversold` capacity on the submarine cable network and stating it has been awaiting the latter to assign additional capacity for the country.
Mumbai, Dec 07: The bandwidth pricing war in India is hotting up with Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd alleging that Flag Telecom Holdings Ltd has "oversold" capacity on the submarine cable network and stating it has been awaiting the latter to assign additional capacity for the country.
FTHL has sold capacity much beyond the agreed terms of 15 STM1S, which is more than that available on the flag Europe Asia Cable System, senior VSNL officials told here today.
Flag Europe Asia Cable System, which links Europe to Middle East and the Indian sub-continent to the far east, has a designed capacity of 10 gigabytes per second and has a total of 64 STM1S (an STM1 transfers 155 megabyte of data per second) on the entire stretch, they said.
According to the initial construction and maintenance agreement (CMA) signed between the two companies, the former had allotted SIX stm1s for India, which was to be distributed through VSNL. Late in January this year under a fresh agreement, FTHL assigned a total of 15 stm1s for the Indian market of which nine were to be sold by flag, they said.
However, it was found that around 25 stm1s were sold by FTHL in the Indian market, contrary to the agreement, under which the company had only right to sell nine stm1s, they said, adding six stm1s were already being used by VSNL.
Bureau Report
Flag Europe Asia Cable System, which links Europe to Middle East and the Indian sub-continent to the far east, has a designed capacity of 10 gigabytes per second and has a total of 64 STM1S (an STM1 transfers 155 megabyte of data per second) on the entire stretch, they said.
According to the initial construction and maintenance agreement (CMA) signed between the two companies, the former had allotted SIX stm1s for India, which was to be distributed through VSNL. Late in January this year under a fresh agreement, FTHL assigned a total of 15 stm1s for the Indian market of which nine were to be sold by flag, they said.
However, it was found that around 25 stm1s were sold by FTHL in the Indian market, contrary to the agreement, under which the company had only right to sell nine stm1s, they said, adding six stm1s were already being used by VSNL.
Bureau Report