Swedish telecom equipment provider Ericsson is setting up telecom software platform called Developers Zone in India to enable local software developers to develop applications for the global telecom network market.
Angshuman Bonerjee, March 23, 2001
Swedish telecom equipment provider Ericsson is setting up telecom software platform called Developers Zone in India to enable local software developers to develop applications for the global telecom network market.
The company is also aggressively targeting the Indian telecom service providers to provide its state of the art GPRS systems for the cellular sector and CDMA based equipment for the basic operators.
Rohit Chandra, vice president, marketing & technical solutions Ericsson Communications Limited said “ We will be making substantial investment in the Indian market to drive our already expanding business here. Through the Developer Zone we would partner with local talent and develop value added application for wireless services.”
He added that Ericsson would roll out at least three GPRS based mobile networks by 2001 in India and three CDMA based basic services networks for the wireless in local loop services.
Chandra said that Ericsson is also bringing to India CDMA handsets and will put further emphasis on GPRS handsets as the lack of a GPRS handset in the Indian market is resulting in cellular service providers delaying their plans to move from GSM based network to GPRS.
GPRS or general packet radio switching technology is higher than the wireless application protocol (WAP) industry standard used by operators to offer Internet access to mobile customers. GPRS offers faster and an always-on Internet connection.
Indian mobile firms have still to commercially launch GPRS, seen as a stepping stone to third generation or 3G networks.
