C-DOT TO PARTNER WITH TELCOS
Centre for Development
of Telematics (C-DoT), premier telecom R&D centre has decided
to partner with telecom companies (Basic/Cellular operators) to
provide total telecom solutions to enable the operators to meet
the customer expectations.
Partnership summit
organised by C-DoT today at India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, C-DoT
brought together leading telecom operators BSNL, Bharti, Shyam,
Idea, TATA Teleservices, MTNL etc.
Participating in
the Seminar, the CMD, BSNL, Shri Prithipal Singh said that operators
have to meet customer expectations in terms of quality of service
and reduce tariff. The Adviser(Technology), Telecom Commission,
Shri Lalwani said that C-DoT has to partner with operators to
meet the services and technologies they need. Shri Rajiv Mehrotra,
Chairman, Shyam Technologies said that Government and DoT should
support indigenous technology. Shri N.K. Goel, President, TEMA
said that C-DoT has done a great service to the nation and the
country looks forward to C-DoT for more technologies for self-reliance.
Shri K.H. Khan, Member (Technology), DoT appreciated C-DoT for
taking initiative and becoming market oriented. Shri Jagbir Singh,
Vice-President, Bharti Infotel presented a scenario for future
trends in telecom technologies and expected C-DoT to work with
operators to develop those Indian market technologies.
The major objective
of the partnership summit was to apprise the Telecom companies
about the C-DoT’s technical strengths, products, technologies
and solutions and its plans to develop futuristic technologies
for the requirements of telecom markets.
Using the inputs
of operators, C-DoT is looking forward to cater to generic and
specific needs of the telecom service providing companies through
various models of cooperation including long term understanding
and sustaining partnership on mutually identified area of technology
solutions.
