Australian phone company Telstra International has been awarded three new licenses to provide customers in India Internet and national and international long-distance telecoms services under its joint venture with Microland.

The new licenses authorized Telstra Telecommunications Private Limited to provide the services within the next six months, capturing India's multinational corporate market located in Bangalore, Kolkata, Chennai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Mumbai and Pune.

Telstra Telecommunications Private Limited received the licenses from the Department of Telecommunications on October. It is 74 per cent owned by Telstra International and 26 per cent by Indian Pradeep Kar controlled Microland. Formed in 2009, Telstra Telecommunications Private Limited provides both domestic and international managed services to enterprise customers in India.

"This demonstrates Telstra's ongoing commitment to invest in India," Tarek Robbiati, Group Managing Director for Telstra International Group, said.

Telstra is re-entering India's consumer telecom market after over a decade. It was one of many foreign telecommunication companies that won licenses in the early 1990s. In 1995, it launched a mobile network in partnership with the B K Modi Group, but was later sold.

Mumbai and Chennai will serve as Telstra's Indian international gateways connecting its international backbone network, which would provide customers with direct routes into networks in Europe and Asia.

Telstra would also extend its industry standard service level agreements, offer higher levels of service monitoring, and help reduce risks with multi-level resiliency and redundancy in network design, the company said in a statement.

Telstra International is part of Telstra International Group and provides global telecommunications services and solutions to Australian and Multi-Nationals and Global Service Providers. Together with its offshore subsidiaries and international investments, Telstra International serves over 200 of the world's top 500 companies, spanning Europe, Asia Pacific and the Americas.