Mumbai 13, 2017: India is currently the world’s second largest telecommunication market. The Indian mobile economy is growing rapidly and contributing majorly to India’s GDP. Indian Telecom sector is also generating millions of direct and indirect jobs. These employment opportunities are expected to be created due to rapid increase in the smartphones sales and rising internet usage.

Amidst this C-DOT has presented a unique innovation “C-DOT WiDHWAN” at the Aegis Graham Bell Award Jury Round under the “Innovative Telecom Product/Solution” category. C-DOT WiDHWAN is an indigenous solution to address indoor mobile call drops due to cellular network coverage issue. The project aims to provide an alternative route to reach cell phones utilizing a user-managed wireless medium of a steady and reliable indoor wireless network.

“Aegis Graham Bell Award is a good and valuable platform to showcase our product. We are able to boost our products in the market through AGBA” – Mr Bluemax Stephen, Group Leader, C-DOT

About C-DOT:

C-DOT, India’s premier telecommunications R&D center, has been a pioneer and a trailblazer. C-DOT is committed to providing wide ranging, state-of-the-art and cost-effective indigenous total telecom solutions.

About us:

The Aegis Graham Bell Award is the largest innovation award for the ICT domain in India. The Aegis School of Business, Data Science, Cyber Security and Telecommunication has established the Aegis Graham Bell Award as a tribute to the father of the telephony, Alexander Graham Bell. This Award is intended to promote innovation, entrepreneurship in the field of Telecom, Social, Mobility, Analytics, Cloud, and Security to provide recognition for outstanding contributions by the innovators. The Award is organized with support of the Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI), and Telecom Centres of Excellence (TCOE), Convergence India and Deloitte as a knowledge partner.

The 8th Award ceremony will take place on 23th February 2018 at New Delhi. For further information, please visit: www.bellaward.com

For more information, please contact:

Shweta Chavan | Corporate Communication | Aegis Graham Bell Awards | 8433969263 | shweta@bellaward.com