Tata Communications today announced expanding its network in Russia via a local point of presence in Moscow. The company aims to serve the Russian and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) through the enhanced network.

The Moscow centre of the company serves over 100 service providers of the region.

“Our expansion into Russia highlights our commitment to extend our global footprint into the emerging markets and deliver an unparalleled global network reach for our industry-leading voice and data services,” says Claude Sassoulas, Managing Director, Europe and Africa, Tata Communications.

Apart from this enhancement, the company is also in agreement with Kazakh Telecom towards enhancing the connectivity between Moscow, Astana and Almaty.

“We can now offer our global managed network services to companies that are looking to expand into Russia in a much more cost-effective manner and we’ll be working with partners to enable Russian companies as they increasingly look to get access to a full world-class solution of telecommunications services” concludes Sassoulas.