BANGALORE: While the developed world has already moved to 3G, Indian telecom regulators are still mulling on the shift from the current 2.5 G to 3G networks in India.
Padmasree Warrior, CTO of cell phone major Motorola, suggested that in such a scenario, it would make sense for India to leapfrog to 4G and wireless broadband technologies.
“These are around 1.5 times more cost effective than the current Indian standard,” she said, addressing a press conference here today.
She added that India could evolve on this linear path and learn from the lessons from other countries which have gone for such adoption.
Highlighting technology shifts, Warrior said that globally there is a movement from cellular technologies to what is referred to as “Wi4 networks,” which is a combination of cellular and Internet technologies and also to mesh networks.
She said that more and more solutions and content are moving on to mobiles. The company intends to tie-up with an Indian telco service provider to launch its latest high-end CDMA smart phone called the Q phone in a few months' time.
Highlighting the plans for Motorola's Indian six R&D centers in Bangalore (four centers) and Hyderabad (two centers) - the largest development cluster outside the United States, Warrior said that plans are afoot to add 500 more engineers to the existing 3500-strong team by the end of 2006.
She said that the extent of expansion across the two cities would be decided based on infrastructure improvement and traffic availability.
Around 40 per cent of the software used in Motorola phones are developed by Indian engineers. The team is responsible for developing soft switch and IMS server and most of the software on the soon-to-be-released Q phone.
She also said that the company won a contract from the GSM Association to make low-cost phones. “We are moving from developing $40 phones to $30 phones.”
In India, the company is working with the Rajasthan Government on an e-education project to connect Panchayats across the state through the company's proprietary Canopy wireless network.
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