Inside TATA Communications World's Largest Fibre Network handling 24% of the Global Internet Traffic

[PARIKRAMA]

@Shotgunner51
Sir, For search term China (source Submarine Cable Map

I am posting 3 pics step by step zooming..
Right side cable names connecting to China is given.

 

[praveen007]

I also have some query on the numbers. Let's take a look from optical fiber preform market.

Global optical fiber preform market capacity amounted to 13,000 tons in 2014, mainly concentrated in the China, United States and Japan (totaling as much as 85.2% of the world's total), of which China ranked first with a share of 39.8%.

Global optical fiber preform market is highly concentrated, with top 5 companies (one in China, two in the United States, and two in Japan) together making up 59.4% of market share in 2014, of which Chinese Yangtze Optical Fibre and Cable Co., Ltd. (YOFC) taking the first place with a share of 13.3%, followed by U.S. Corning Inc. (12.9%). Order a copy of this optical fiber preform market 2015 research report at Purchase:
Global and China Optical Fiber Preform Industry Report, 2014-2017 .

Besides a big producer of optical fiber preform, China is also a large consumer, demanding 6,639 tons in 2014, 60.9% of global demand. The figure is expected to increase to 7,144 tons in 2015.

New Report on Global and China Optical Fiber Preform Market
Global and China Optical Fiber Perform Industry Report, 2014-2017 -- LONDON, Nov. 12, 2015 /PRNewswire/ --
Optical Fiber Preform Market: China to Consume 50%+ (7144 Tons) of Global Capacity in 2015 - Yahoo Finance
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[atomix]

But we in India have to still pay high price for slow internet. Second thing is that bandwidth is not being completely utilized and all the telcos keep the supply trimmed down to increase the price of bandwidth. Unless we get 10-25mbs at economical rates it makes no difference on who owns it.

 

[praveen007]

 

[Abingdonboy]

TATA is also the offical connectivity provider of the entire FIA F1 Championship:

And they are the offical connectivity provider to the current F1 World driver's and World Constructor's champions Mercedes AMG Petronas:

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[mirage]

That's a way to assess the network size from upstream, telcos purchase the fiber optics and use that as network to provide traffic. Given the relatively small total national market of fiber optics (China alone was 60.9% of global demand, followed by US, Japan), even assuming Tata is the largest fish in the pond and dominates all still the network size is only limited.

I have no doubt on Tata's domestic position as tier-one ISP but query is on horizontal comparison with telcos in other countries, especially countries consuming large amount of fiber optics, with big FTTH scale, etc. How does Tata compare with say China Telecom, AT&T, NTT Docomo, SK Telecom, Vodafone or other large telcos?

TATA's acquired 100 % stake in corus a european steel giant ( check g00gle for the size of bidder and seller ) ,maybe above mentioned companies are on their takeover targets sometime in future !