CorDECT Innovating for a Telecom Revolution

India's telecom industry dates back to 1852, when the British colonial rulers introduced the telegraph service. However, the telecom services were introduced not to fulfill any socio-economic objectives, but to meet the requirements of the British government in the matters of defense, law and order, general administration, and revenue collection.

The use of conventional wireline technologies had rendered telephones beyond the reach of the average Indian primarily on account of high infrastructure costs...

The technology worked on the premise of using radio waves instead of physical copper wires to transmit voice signals from local exchanges to subscribers. The research team realized that the existing access networks from the main telephone exchanges could be used to carry signals over long distances. Once these signals reached the local exchange, they were digitized and transmitted to subscribers...