Tata Communications

Tata Communications is the global wholesale carrier and digital-infrastructure arm of India's Tata Group, headquartered in Mumbai. It owns one of the world's largest subsea cable networks, carries a large share of global internet routes, and sells international voice and messaging wholesale, IZO network services, MOVE global IoT and eSIM connectivity, MVNE services, and — through its October 2023 acquisition of Kaleyra — a full CPaaS, UCaaS, and CCaaS stack. It sits in the supply layer of the telecom value chain: a carrier's carrier whose customers are mostly other operators, enterprises, and aggregators rather than individual developers. Its API posture matches that position and is honestly partner-gated. Tata Communications runs a real first-party developer portal at developer.tatacommunications.com, built on Akana Community Manager, whose catalogue names 49 APIs — but only three are marked Public and return a downloadable Swagger 2.0 document to an anonymous caller; the other forty-six answer 401. MOVE IoT has a second, separate Azure API Management portal that lists three API products but gates the reference behind sign-in. The DIGO CPaaS documentation site is HTML-only, sales-gated behind a "we will get in touch" form, and was serving an expired TLS certificate at the time of review. No CAMARA network API and no GSMA Open Gateway participation could be evidenced anywhere on its properties. In practice most developers reach Tata Communications through the separately branded Kaleyra CPaaS portal rather than through Tata Communications itself.

Tata Communications publishes 3 APIs on the APIs.io network: Number Intelligence API, Mobile Messaging Exchange - Account Administration, and Mobile Messaging Exchange - CDR Report API. Tagged areas include Telecommunications, India, Wholesale Carrier, CPaaS, and Messaging.

The Tata Communications catalog on APIs.io includes 1 event-driven AsyncAPI specification.

Tata Communications’ developer surface includes authentication, code examples, sandbox, documentation, signup flow, engineering blog, developer portal, and 27 more developer resources.

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49.0/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 78/100 agent native Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.5

6 APIs 1 MCP Servers

TelecommunicationsIndiaWholesale CarrierCPaaSMessagingVoiceIoTeSIMNumber IntelligenceConnectivitySubsea CablePartner Gated

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scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.5

Composite quality — 49.0/100 · developing

Contract Quality 15.1 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 11.3 / 20

Commercial Clarity 12.1 / 20

Operational Transparency 1.7 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 8.8 / 10

Agent readiness — 78/100 · agent native

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 15 / 15

MCP Server 12 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 7 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 6 / 6

Agent Skills 5 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

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APIs 6

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

Get Started 5

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Sandbox

DeveloperPortal

SignUp

Portal

Login

Documentation 3

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Documentation

Documentation

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 4

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

LLMsTxt

MCPServer

AgentSkill

AgenticAccess

Design & Contract 6

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conventions

ErrorCatalog

DataModel

Lifecycle

Conformance

Webhooks

Build 4

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

ToolCrosswalk

ToolCrosswalk

Examples

Examples

Packages

Packages

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 4

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Authentication

Compliance

TrustCenter

DomainSecurity

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

HelpCenter

HelpCenter

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing

Pricing

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

LinkedIn

Blog

Blog

Source (apis.yml)

aid: tata-communications
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/tata-communications/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: Tata Communications
kind: company
description: 'Tata Communications is the global wholesale carrier and digital-infrastructure arm of India''s Tata Group, headquartered
  in Mumbai. It owns one of the world''s largest subsea cable networks, carries a large share of global internet routes, and
  sells international voice and messaging wholesale, IZO network services, MOVE global IoT and eSIM connectivity, MVNE services,
  and — through its October 2023 acquisition of Kaleyra — a full CPaaS, UCaaS, and CCaaS stack. It sits in the supply layer
  of the telecom value chain: a carrier''s carrier whose customers are mostly other operators, enterprises, and aggregators
  rather than individual developers. Its API posture matches that position and is honestly partner-gated. Tata Communications
  runs a real first-party developer portal at developer.tatacommunications.com, built on Akana Community Manager, whose catalogue
  names 49 APIs — but only three are marked Public and return a downloadable Swagger 2.0 document to an anonymous caller;
  the other forty-six answer 401. MOVE IoT has a second, separate Azure API Management portal that lists three API products
  but gates the reference behind sign-in. The DIGO CPaaS documentation site is HTML-only, sales-gated behind a "we will get
  in touch" form, and was serving an expired TLS certificate at the time of review. No CAMARA network API and no GSMA Open
  Gateway participation could be evidenced anywhere on its properties. In practice most developers reach Tata Communications
  through the separately branded Kaleyra CPaaS portal rather than through Tata Communications itself.'
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
tags:
- Telecommunications
- India
- Wholesale Carrier
- CPaaS
- Messaging
- Voice
- IoT
- eSIM
- Number Intelligence
- Connectivity
- Subsea Cable
- Partner Gated
created: '2026-07-25'
modified: '2026-07-25'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: tata-communications:tata-communications-number-intelligence-api
  name: Number Intelligence API
  description: Queries the number-lookup details of any E.164 number and returns subscriber type, the current and parent network,
    the port-corrected service provider network (SPN), and MCC/MNC when the number is mobile, so a sender can decide whether
    to route traffic to a fixed or mobile destination. Publicly visible on the Tata Communications developer portal with a
    downloadable Swagger 2.0 document; 2 operations across 2 paths.
  humanURL: https://developer.tatacommunications.com/#/api/0cd4be86-167c-4770-9459-e68fe925f63a.tcl
  tags:
  - Number Intelligence
  - Number Portability
  - Routing
  - Wholesale
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/tata-communications-number-intelligence-api.json
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/tata-communications-number-intelligence-api-overlay.yaml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.tatacommunications.com/#/api/0cd4be86-167c-4770-9459-e68fe925f63a.tcl
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developer.tatacommunications.com/#/api/0cd4be86-167c-4770-9459-e68fe925f63a.tcl/versions/9c14d794-576f-4d76-a930-7ba00f38c714.tcl
- aid: tata-communications:tata-communications-mobile-messaging-exchange-account-administration
  name: Mobile Messaging Exchange - Account Administration
  description: Account administration and lookup reporting for the Tata Communications Mobile Messaging Exchange (A2P/wholesale
    SMS) platform, covering destination lookup, report retrieval, and sender-ID registration. Publicly visible on the Tata
    Communications developer portal with a downloadable Swagger 2.0 document; 3 operations across 3 paths.
  humanURL: https://developer.tatacommunications.com/#/api/5d771bb7-97eb-4e36-bf9d-9edd3d51baa8.tcl
  tags:
  - Messaging
  - SMS
  - Account Administration
  - Sender ID
  - Wholesale
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/tata-communications-mobile-messaging-exchange-account-administration.json
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/tata-communications-mobile-messaging-exchange-account-administration-overlay.yaml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.tatacommunications.com/#/api/5d771bb7-97eb-4e36-bf9d-9edd3d51baa8.tcl
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developer.tatacommunications.com/#/api/5d771bb7-97eb-4e36-bf9d-9edd3d51baa8.tcl/versions/976eb113-e9b9-4af7-8e54-842fde470bb1.tcl
- aid: tata-communications:tata-communications-mobile-messaging-exchange-cdr-report-api
  name: Mobile Messaging Exchange - CDR Report API
  description: Call/message detail record reporting for the Tata Communications Mobile Messaging Exchange, returning message
    logs for a given account ID and time frame or for a single customer message ID. Publicly visible on the Tata Communications
    developer portal with a downloadable Swagger 2.0 document; 2 operations across 2 paths.
  humanURL: https://developer.tatacommunications.com/#/api/eef35c15-1259-4b32-8d00-19b8b913ce2d.tcl
  tags:
  - Messaging
  - SMS
  - CDR
  - Reporting
  - Wholesale
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/tata-communications-mobile-messaging-exchange-cdr-report-api.json
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/tata-communications-mobile-messaging-exchange-cdr-report-api-overlay.yaml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.tatacommunications.com/#/api/eef35c15-1259-4b32-8d00-19b8b913ce2d.tcl
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developer.tatacommunications.com/#/api/eef35c15-1259-4b32-8d00-19b8b913ce2d.tcl/versions/70989384-2a73-44d3-8925-8ca108c061b0.tcl
- aid: tata-communications:tata-communications-move-sim-connect-api
  name: MOVE SIM Connect API
  description: Full-service API for the Tata Communications MOVE platform SIM Connect product, supporting management of a
    tenancy — its key entities, services, and the products the tenancy avails. Published on the separate MOVE developer portal
    hosted on Azure API Management; the API reference and any machine- readable definition require portal sign-in, and anonymous
    calls to the catalogue endpoint return 401.
  humanURL: https://move-external-apim-prod.developer.azure-api.net/api-details#api=move-api
  baseURL: https://move-external-apim-prod.azure-api.net
  tags:
  - IoT
  - SIM Management
  - eSIM
  - Connectivity
  - MOVE
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://move-external-apim-prod.developer.azure-api.net/api-details#api=move-api
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://move-external-apim-prod.developer.azure-api.net/api-details#api=move-api
- aid: tata-communications:tata-communications-move-iot-connect-api
  name: MOVE IOT Connect API
  description: Tata Communications MOVE platform IOT API, permitting management of a tenancy of the MOVE IOT Connect product
    including its key entities, services, and subscribed products. Published on the MOVE Azure API Management developer portal;
    the reference is behind sign-in and no anonymous machine-readable definition is served.
  humanURL: https://move-external-apim-prod.developer.azure-api.net/api-details#api=move-iot-api
  baseURL: https://move-external-apim-prod.azure-api.net
  tags:
  - IoT
  - Connectivity Management
  - Cellular
  - MOVE
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://move-external-apim-prod.developer.azure-api.net/api-details#api=move-iot-api
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://move-external-apim-prod.developer.azure-api.net/api-details#api=move-iot-api
- aid: tata-communications:tata-communications-move-access-token-api
  name: MOVE Access Token API
  description: Issues an OAuth 2.0 bearer access token used to call the other Tata Communications MOVE APIs. Published on
    the MOVE Azure API Management developer portal; the reference is behind sign-in and no anonymous machine-readable definition
    is served.
  humanURL: https://move-external-apim-prod.developer.azure-api.net/api-details#api=tata-move-api-access-manager
  baseURL: https://move-external-apim-prod.azure-api.net
  tags:
  - Authentication
  - OAuth 2.0
  - MOVE
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://move-external-apim-prod.developer.azure-api.net/api-details#api=tata-move-api-access-manager
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://move-external-apim-prod.developer.azure-api.net/api-details#api=tata-move-api-access-manager
common:
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/tata-communications-llms.txt
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/tata-communications-mcp.yml
- type: ToolCrosswalk
  url: mcp/tata-communications-tool-crosswalk.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/tata-communications-authentication.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/tata-communications-conventions.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/tata-communications-problem-types.yml
- type: Examples
  url: examples/tata-communications-examples.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/tata-communications-data-model.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/tata-communications-lifecycle.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/tata-communications-conformance.yml
- type: Compliance
  url: https://www.tatacommunications.com/cloud/cloud-compliance
- type: TrustCenter
  url: security/tata-communications-trust-center.yml
- type: Sandbox
  url: sandbox/tata-communications-sandbox.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/tata-communications-packages.yml
- type: Webhooks
  url: asyncapi/tata-communications-webhooks.yml
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/tata-communications-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/tata-communications-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.tatacommunications.com/
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://developer.tatacommunications.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://developer.tatacommunications.com/apis
- type: Documentation
  url: https://move-external-apim-prod.developer.azure-api.net/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.tatacommunications.com/api-zone
- type: SignUp
  url: https://move-external-apim-prod.developer.azure-api.net/signup
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/tata-communication
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.tatacommunications.com/blog/
- type: Portal
  url: https://www.developer.move.tatacommunications.com/
- type: Support
  url: https://www.tatacommunications.com/support
- type: HelpCenter
  url: https://www.tatacommunications.com/knowledge-base
- type: Pricing
  url: https://www.tatacommunications.com/cloud/pricing
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.tatacommunications.com/policies/terms-of-use
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.tatacommunications.com/policies/privacy
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/tatacommunications
- type: Login
  url: https://developer.tatacommunications.com/login
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

Tata Communications

Kin Score

APIs 6

Number Intelligence API

Mobile Messaging Exchange - Account Administration

Mobile Messaging Exchange - CDR Report API

MOVE SIM Connect API

MOVE IOT Connect API

MOVE Access Token API

MCP Servers 1

tata-communications-mcp.yml

Event Specifications 1

Tata Communications Webhooks

Security Posture 3

Tata Communications Authentication

Tata Communications Domain Security

Tata Communications Trust Center

Agentic Access 1

Tata Communications Agentic Access

Resources

Get Started 5

Documentation 3

Agent Surfaces 4

Design & Contract 6

Build 4

Access & Security 4

Operate 2

Commercial 3

Company 3

Source (apis.yml)