NavIC – The Map Room https://www.maproomblog.com Blogging about maps since 2003 Tue, 27 Sep 2022 13:42:13 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.maproomblog.com/xq/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/cropped-logo-2017-04-32x32.jpg NavIC – The Map Room https://www.maproomblog.com 32 32 116787204 India Pushing Phone Makers to Adopt NavIC https://www.maproomblog.com/2022/09/india-pushing-phone-makers-to-adopt-navic/ Tue, 27 Sep 2022 13:42:13 +0000 https://www.maproomblog.com/?p=1809201 More]]> Reuters reports that the Indian government is pushing mobile phone makers to include support for NavIC, the Indian-government owned satellite navigation system. (At the moment NavIC provides regional coverage from a seven-satellite constellation, but the plan is for 24-satellite global coverage.) Phone makers are resisting the request, citing the additional chips and cost required to support the system. And there’s the matter of redundancy: the current iPhone, for example, already supports BeiDou, Galileo, GLONASS and QZSS in addition to GPS. [9to5Mac]

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