WHILE INDIA had enthusiastically embraced the telecom revolution in the past decade, it seemed to have lost the race for innovation. The country took to landline phones in a big way and then, thanks to a proactive policy regime, cellular phones began gaining ground. Today India has joined the league of developed countries where mobile phones have outstripped landlines.

The same cannot however be said about indigenous telecom research and development. The clock seemed to have stopped over a decade back when the demand for rugged exchanges designed by the Centre for Development of Telematics (C-DoT) began nose-diving. One by one, the 32 companies manufacturing C-DoT exchanges started closing down. Barring the introduction of CorDect technology for which the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, basically improved upon existing technology there have been no major breakthroughs in the telecom R & D sector.

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Title: Telecom
Approximate Word Count: 750
Approximate Pages: 3 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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