| Yesterday, VSNL had announced a similar tie-up with the under-sea cable system. |
| "The new cable system is expected to be in place by the third quarter of 2005 and will support telephone, Internet, multimedia, various broadband and data applications," Bharti said in a statement. The estimated cost of the entire project has been pegged at around $500 million . |
| Sea-Me-We-4 is the second major international initiative by Bharti Tele-Ventures in the data and broadband space after the installation of the Network i2i project in partnership with SingTel. |
| The contract for the submarine cable has jointly been awarded to Alcatel Submarine Networks of France and Fujitsu of Japan. |
| The system is among the most economical cable systems in the region built with the latest technology. |
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