<span style="color: #222222;">National Telecommunications Institute for Policy Research, Innovation and Training, NTIPRIT, the apex training institute of Department of Telecommunications today conducted a webinar in collaboration with ISRO and Telecom Industry on the topic NavlC – Opportunities for the Telecom Industry NTIPRIT, the apex training institute of Department of Telecommunications today conducted a webinar in collaboration with ISRO and Telecom Industry on the topic NavlC – Opportunities for the Telecom Industry. The webinar was inaugurated by Union Telecom Secretary and Chairman Digital Communications Commission Anshu Prakash. The inaugural session was addressed by Member (Technology) in Digital Communications Commission K Ram Chand, Scientific Secretary of ISRO R Umamaheswaran and Sr DDG of NTIPRIT U.K. Srivastava.</span><br />” <span style="color: #222222;">&nbsp;</span><br />” <span style="color: #222222;">In his address Mr Anshu Prakash underscored the importance of integration of technology with applications so as to reap the benefits of technology to the fullest. He supported the views to make NavlC mandatory for all mobile phones in India. He also stressed the use of tracking potential of NavIC in the present COVID pandemic in tracking the oxygen tankers and other essentials.&nbsp;</span><br />” <span style="color: #222222;">&nbsp;</span><br />” <span style="color: #222222;">Navigation with Indian Constellation, NavIC is an autonomous regional satellite navigation system established and maintained by ISRO. It covers India and a region extending up to 1500 kilometres beyond Indian mainland primary coverage area. It provides better position accuracy and better timing accuracy. NavIC based applications are being used in various civilian sectors, including, transport, map applications, and timekeeping. Today major mobile chipset manufacturers like Qualcomm, MediaTek and Broadcom already support NavIC across various chipset platforms. A few mobile phone OEMs have also released handsets which can be enabled to receive NavlC through Over the Air firmware update. Some examples for NavlC enabled mobile phones include the Redmi Note 9 series from Xiaomi, the Realme 6 series, the OnePlus Nord, etc.</span><br />” <br />” <span style="color: #222222;">NavlC is an indigenous positioning system that is under Indian control. There is no risk of the service being withdrawn or denied in a given situation.</span><br />” &nbsp;<br />