MUMBAI, April 30 (Reuters) - India's Reliance Industries Ltd said on Tuesday it has joined a consortium of telecomcompanies building an 8,000 kilometre submarine cable system tolink Malaysia and Singapore with the Middle East.
The Bay of Bengal Gateway (BBG) cable system, which willhave connections to India and Sri Lanka, is expected to carrycommercial traffic by end of 2014, Reliance said in a statement.
Other members of the consortium include Telekom Malaysia, Vodafone, Omantel, Etisalat and Dialog Axiata.
Reliance, which is the only company with nationwide permitsfor 4G services in India, last week took a step closer tolaunching the services in a fiercely competitive telecoms marketwith a deal to lease undersea cable capacity from Bharti Airtel on the Chennai to Singapore route.