In The New Geopolitical Reality Perfect B2B Telecommunications TASIM Role In The New Geopolitical Reality April 2014

Timeline Proposed 2008 by Gov. of Azerbaijan Endorsed by UN General Assembly Resolution Dec. 2009 Project Group launched Apr. 2010 International Workshop on TASIM, Project Secretariat established Jul 2011 21st of December, 2012, UN General Assembly unanimously adopted a new resolution (A/Res/67/194), which contributed to the update of political support of the UN for project TASIM 3rd of December, 2013, Preliminary Agreement has signed by China Telecom, IR&AC, KazTransCom, Rostelecom, Turk Telekom

TASIM WWW

Main Goals Deployment of one of the shortest transit “Asia – Europe” route Increasing of revenue provision and additional value adding services for European, Caucasian, Middle East, Central Asia countries, and furthermore Turkey and China Substantial alternative transit opportunities for European, Middle East and Turkish carriers to bypass Russia Redundant “Asia – Europe” transit route deployment via Kazakhstan territory

Project Parts Project has splitted into 4 parts due to terrestrial partnership method: 1. Chinese part. With ChinaTelecom partnership. The route – Hong Kong – Urumqi – China-Kazakhstan border 2. Kazakhstani part. The route – Kazakhstan-China border – Kazakhstan-Azerbaijan Caspian marine border 3. Caucasus part. With IRAC of MTIT AR partnership. The route - Kazakhstan-Azerbaijan Caspian marine border – Istanbul 4. European part. With Turk Telekom Int. partnership. The route - Istanbul – Frankfurt

Projected Route

Competitors (DE – PL) – UA – RU – KZ – CN (DE – AT – HU – RO – BG) – (TK – GE) – AZ – KZ – CN

Competitors

Volumes vs Money

Chinese Part New Urumqi POP has deployed in May 2012 China Telecom has optimized its netwоrk topology and decreased latency with 50-70 ms from Urumqi to Hong Kong 100% redundancy provided by China Telecom

Caucasus Part - Route Submarine cable route via Kinderli (Republic of Kazakhstan) to Siazan (Azerbaijan Republic)

European Part 100% redundancy all over European part of Project

Risks Till now the Status of Caspian Sea is not legitimized Traffic volumes are still unknown Route is still not optimized for competitive RTD

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RTDs

RTDs