AT&T and Bharti Airtel have entered into an agreement to provide greater access to Multinational companies (MNC) in India. 

“This major agreement demonstrates AT&T’s global strategy to support its MNC customers wherever their business takes them”, the companies said in joint statement.

AT&T already has eight nodes in Delhi / National Capital Region, Bangalore, Mumbai, Chennai and Hyderabad. Under the Network-to-Network Interconnect (NNI) agreement, AT&T customers have access to more than 100 cities across India via Bharti Airtel’s more than 130 Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)-enabled IP Network nodes.

Under the agreement multinational customers will enjoy end-to-end fully managed MPLS capabilities. It will offer consistent AT&T services from wherever they work in India, from the first-tier cities covered by AT&T’s existing network to all of the nation’s key smaller cities and high-growth areas.

It will ensure a cost-effective, thorough and strong network. They can also expand their global MPLS virtual private networks (VPNs) to locations across India and consistent performance across all sites and a single point of contact for service-level agreement (SLA) management.

“AT&T’s goal is to give customers the same experience whether they are expanding into India or internationally from India,” said Sanjiv Bhagat, Sales Center Vice President, India, AT&T.

AT&T has been present in India for more than 25 years. With network facilities across the country and the new NNI interconnections with the Bharti Airtel network, it offers enhanced VPN services and solutions to its enterprise customers in India, including MNCs.