Product category: Communications ICs (Wired)
News Release from: Texas Instruments (April 2006-)
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 14 July 2006
TI executive meets with India Government
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Executive meets with Indian Government official to outline benefits of open standards to drive mobile phone penetration.
At a meeting with press hosted by Thiru Dayanidhi Maran, the Honourable Minister of Communications and IT for India, Texas Instruments (TI) outlined how continued support of open technology standards will enable India to reach its goal of 500 million mobile phone subscribers by 2010 Gilles Delfassy, TI's senior vice president of its Wireless Terminals Business Unit, also announced that TI is increasing its wireless design presence in India with a new research and development (RandD) centre in Chennai
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 4 Apr 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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"Mobile phone growth in India is nothing short of a phenomenon, and the wireless industry waits for India's next move because of the impact it will have on the future of mobile phones", said Delfassy.
"Today, there is a huge opportunity to connect the unconnected as the majority of India's population does not have access to communications services".