United Telecoms Limited [1] is a three decade old diversified business group, one of the first business houses to bring cellular services to the country. UTL pioneered the e-Governance initiative that creates a high-tech interface between the government and its citizens, which has been successfully adopted by many state governments. Today, the footprint extends over 60-plus nations across South Asia, Africa, America and Europe. Telecom R&D is primarily focused on DWDM with a strong team of 120 engineers.
UTL has a long history of executing large DWDM orders for Indian government by winning tenders against major global companies.
Industry | Telecommunications equipment [2] |
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Founded | 1986[ citation needed ] |
Headquarters | Bangalore, Karnataka, India |
Products | Telecommunications, [3] Transmission Equipment, Mobile phones, Network Management System and Training |
Website | www |
It is a Bangalore based private company that does business in optical transmission, exchange, MPLS core, access, mobile phones, and telecommunications software. GPON products for Bharat Broadband Network is supplied by the company. They are manufactured in India using technology developed by Centre for Development of Telematics (C-DOT). [4] [5]
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Reliance Communications Limited (RCOM) was an Indian mobile network provider headquartered in Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra that offered voice and 2G and 3G and 4G data services. In February 2019, the company filed for bankruptcy as it was unable to sell assets to repay its debt. It has an estimated debt of ₹500 billion against assets worth ₹180 billion.
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ITI Limited, earlier known as Indian Telephone Industries Limited, is a central public sector undertaking in India. It is under the ownership of Department of Telecommunications, Ministry of Communications, Government of India. It was founded in 1948 as a departmental factory, incorporated as a public company in 1950 and today has six manufacturing facilities at Bangalore, Naini, Mankapur, Raebareli, Palakkad and Srinagar which produce a range of switching, transmission, access and subscriber premises equipment. It is headquartered at Bangalore. It has multi-locational electronic assembly and mechanical manufacturing facilities, countrywide marketing and customer support centers and in-house R&D for absorption of technology, indigenous development of products for in-house manufacturing. It produces GSM mobile equipment at its Mankapur and Raebareli facilities. These two facilities supply more than nine million lines per annum to both domestic as well as foreign markets. The Palakkad unit is responsible for data handling with assembly and personalization of smart cards and electronic manufacturing facilities for PCB's, HDPE Pipe, Smart Energy Meters, Micro PC under Smart City Mission etc. It also produces Information and Communication Technology (ICT) equipments such as network management systems, encryption and networking for internet connectivity, and secure communications networks and equipment for the defence. The company has 1608 employees as on June 1, 2024. On 01-10-2020, ITI Limited signed a contract with Defence to implement ₹7,796 crore ASCON Phase-IV project.
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