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, part of

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and based in

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. Part of their recent work has involved the updating of the CANTAT transatlantic cable system that connects the

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and

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under the

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. The latest version of CANTAT,

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, had a capacity of 5 Gbit/s in each direction across the Atlantic.

History

The company was, in 1950, a Canadian federal

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called Canadian Overseas Telecommunications Corporation (COTC). In 1975 the COTC was renamed Teleglobe Canada. After the 1984 election, Prime Minister

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began the process of privatizing Crown corporations and Teleglobe Canada was one of the target assets. It was finally sold to a small telecommunications equipment maker Memotec Data Incorporated of

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in 1987 and Teleglobe Canada became a unit of its new owners. In 1992, Memotec changed its own name to Teleglobe Canada Incorporated. In 2000 Teleglobe Inc. was acquired by

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, or BCE, which had already owned 23%. In 2002, BCE terminated its relationship with Teleglobe. BCE is now defending several litigations arising out of its abandonment of the Teleglobe business. It was then sold to two American buyers,

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based Cerberus Capital LLP and Philadelphia based Ten-X Capital Partners LLC. Renamed again, it became Teleglobe International Holdings Limited with incorporation in Bermuda and its corporate office in Virginia. In 2005, it was bought by the Indian industrial giant

. During its life as a Crown corporation and as part of Memotec Data, Teleglobe still maintained operations in

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. Earth stations were located across

: *

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– Eglinton Avenue and Pharmacy Avenue (site owned by Bell); Milner Avenue and Morningside Avenue *

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, Quebec *

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Head office was in

and last located at Techno Park. Tata Communications Canada's head office is located at 1555 Rue Carrie-Derick in Montreal. After the American buyout, the head office was in Reston, Virginia. In February 2006, the company was renamed to Teleglobe, a VSNL International Company, a unit of VSNL International, then an Indian PSU. Having lost the monopoly as a long-distance carrier in 1997, Teleglobe is a diversified international telecommunications services with focus in voice, data and IP, and mobile signaling services. In February 2008,

announced that

VSNL Tata Communications Limited (previously known as Videsh Sanchar Nigam Limited) is an Indian telecommunications company. It was a government-owned telecommunications service provider before being sold to the Tata Group in 2002 under the Third ...

, VSNL International, Teleglobe, Tata Indicom Enterprise Business Unit and Cipris have been integrated under Tata Communications brand name.TelecomTiger. February 14, 2008
Five Tata subsidiaries clubbed under Tata Communications brand name
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Locations

Tata Canadian locations are: * 1959 Upper Water Street ( Purdy's Wharf Tower 1),

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- offices * 1555 rue Carrie Derick,

- head office * 825 Milner Avenue,

(former earth station for VSNL and Teleglobe)

References

External links

Tata Communications
{{Tata Group Bell Canada Telecommunications companies of Canada Tata Communications

History

Locations

See also

References

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