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India, UK Sign Pact To Set Up Joint Innovation Centre For Telecom, Commit Rs 282 Cr
Deputy Director General, Parag Agrawal said that CIC will tackle the connectivity challenges of the present and future.
New Delhi: India and the UK signed a strategic partnership at India Mobile Congress 2025 to jointly drive innovation in the digital connectivity space with an investment of 24 million pounds (about Rs 282 crore) in the next four years.
The agreement was signed by the United Kingdom's Department of Science, Innovation and Technology, Deputy Director for Technology, Spectrum and Strategy division of Catherine Page and the Department of Telecom, Deputy Director General, Parag Agrawal, for setting up the India-UK Connectivity and Innovation Centre (CIC).
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