FLAG Telecom Provides Additional International Connectivity as Formula One Races Into Shanghai

FLAG Telecom Provides Additional International Connectivity as Formula One Races Into Shanghai

FLAG Carries F1 Content From China to the Rest of the World

SHANGHAI, China and LONDON, England, October 18/PRNewswire/ -- The eyes of the sporting world were on China on Sunday as Formula One
raced back into Shanghai. To ensure the media broadcasts from the Grand Prix
were not interrupted, FLAG Telecom worked alongside its partner China
Telecom, provisioning additional capacity to meet the exacting communication
needs of the global TV and news agencies covering the event.

Owen Best, FLAG Telecom's President for Asia Pacific, explained: "To meet
the broadband capacity needs during the Formula One weekend, China needed to
dramatically increase its global connectivity. China Telecom looked to FLAG
to quickly provision additional high-quality circuits and ensure there was no
disruption to the service during the build up and running of the high profile
F1 event. As a carriers carrier, FLAG manages broadcast traffic for many of
the world's leading telecommunications operators. Whether it's a Football
World Cup event in Asia, the Summer Olympics in Athens, or Formula One in
China or the Middle East, FLAG works with our customers and their end users
to deliver faultless coverage. For the F1 event, China Telecom managed all
domestic infrastructure requirements and FLAG carried the pictures and sound
around the world."

FLAG Europe-Asia (FEA) was the first intercontinental submarine cable to
land in China. China Telecom is the FEA landing station partner at Shanghai
and has been a customer of FLAG Telecom since 1997. The companies are working
closely together to meet the needs of customers requiring international
connectivity into and out of China and planning for the broadcast needs of
the global media during the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.

F1 first came to China in 2004, when some 150,000 spectators watched the
Inaugural Shanghai Grand Prix on the newly constructed race track. Formed in
the shape of a "Shang2" Chinese character, which means "high" or "above", the
Shanghai circuit is a state of the art complex.

FLAG's cable network spans the globe and the company has an acknowledged
reputation for a centralised end to end network management underpinned by
exceptional quality and service support.

About FLAG Telecom

FLAG Telecom, a Reliance Infocomm company, has an established customer
base of more than 180 leading operators, including all of the top ten
international carriers. FLAG owns and manages an extensive optical fibre
network spanning four continents and connecting key business markets in Asia,
Europe, the Middle East and the USA. FLAG also owns and operates a low
latency global MPLS based IP network, which connects most of the world's
principal international Internet exchanges. FLAG offers a focused range of
global products, including global bandwidth, IP, Internet, Ethernet and
Co-location services. In the first international acquisition by the Reliance
Group, FLAG Telecom became a Reliance Infocomm company on 12 January 2004.
Recent news releases and further information are on FLAG Telecom's website
at: www.flagtelecom.com.

About Reliance Infocomm

Reliance Infocomm Ltd., an Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Enterprises group
company, is India's largest private information and communications services
provider, with a subscriber base of over 12 million. Reliance Infocomm has
established a pan-India, high-capacity, integrated (wireless and wireline),
convergent (voice, data and video) digital network, to offer services
spanning the entire Infocomm value chain.

The Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Enterprises group, is a member of the Reliance
Group, founded by Shri Dhirubhai H. Ambani (1932-2002). www.relianceinfo.com

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Source: FLAG Telecom

FLAG Telecom: Jane Windsor, Director of Communications, +44-20-7317-0813, jwindsor@flagtelecom.com. Reliance Infocomm, Jimmy Mogal, Head, Corporate Communications, +91-22 3038-5128, Jimmy.Mogal@relianceinfo.com

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