Tata Communications (News - Alert) has selected Telsima Corporation to provide WiMAX solutions for Tata Communications broadband wireless network in India.

Tata Communications is the first to launch broadband services on the WiMAX platform for retail consumers in India.

In the initial phase, Tata Communications’ WiMAX (News - Alert) network is expected to offer Broadband Internet access and content services to enterprise and residential customers in Delhi, Mumbai, Pune, Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Cochin, Chandigarh, and Kolkata.

However, by the end of 2008 Tata Communications plans to enable WiMAX retail broadband service in about 15 cities.

“Tata Communications' seeks to enrich life by enabling reliable and affordable communication anytime, anywhere,” said Shankar Prasad, president of retail business unit at Tata Communications.

He also said in a press statement that to that end Tata Communications has selected Telsima (News - Alert) to provide WiMAX infrastructure and subscriber equipment solutions to deploy commercial WiMAX network, with 3000 base station sectors already getting deployed, and explained that this enables customers to access video, education, music and business services.

“Telsima’s focus on meeting the needs of the Indian market and their commitment to deploy WiMAX solutions for a competitive market such as ours prompted us to select them amongst various other solution providers.”

Telsima’s solution equipped with STC/MRC technology allows his company to increase base station capacity thereby improving the “ability to serve large number of customers with high quality and high speed broadband.”