{"id":1809201,"date":"2022-09-27T09:42:13","date_gmt":"2022-09-27T13:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1809201"},"modified":"2022-09-27T09:42:13","modified_gmt":"2022-09-27T13:42:13","slug":"india-pushing-phone-makers-to-adopt-navic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2022\/09\/india-pushing-phone-makers-to-adopt-navic\/","title":{"rendered":"India Pushing Phone Makers to Adopt NavIC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/technology\/exclusive-indias-push-home-grown-navigation-system-jolts-smartphone-giants-2022-09-26\/\">Reuters reports<\/a> that the Indian government is pushing mobile phone makers to include support for <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Indian_Regional_Navigation_Satellite_System\">NavIC<\/a>, 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\u2019s the matter of redundancy: the current iPhone, for example, already supports <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/BeiDou\">BeiDou<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Galileo_(satellite_navigation)\">Galileo<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/GLONASS\">GLONASS<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Quasi-Zenith_Satellite_System\">QZSS<\/a> in addition to GPS. [<a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2022\/09\/26\/apple-companies-concerned-india-navic-gps\/\"><em>9to5Mac<\/em><\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2022\/09\/india-pushing-phone-makers-to-adopt-navic\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[254,80],"tags":[387,1592],"class_list":["post-1809201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-gps","category-mobile","tag-india","tag-navic","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1788164,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2020\/01\/beidou-chinas-satellite-navigation-system-to-be-complete-by-june\/","url_meta":{"origin":1809201,"position":0},"title":"Beidou, China\u2019s Satellite Navigation System, to Be Complete by June","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"6 January 2020","format":"link","excerpt":"China\u2019s Beidou satellite navigation system\u2014a competitor to GPS like Russia\u2019s GLONASS and Europe\u2019s Galileo\u2014will be complete by June 2020, when the constellation\u2019s final two satellites are launched, the Associated Press reports. 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Amnesty International has collated on-the-ground and satellite evidence and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Conflicts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Conflicts","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/conflicts\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1814191,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2023\/04\/updated-satellite-imagery-of-ukraine-reveals-russian-fortifications-damage\/","url_meta":{"origin":1809201,"position":5},"title":"Updated Satellite Imagery of Ukraine Reveals Russian Fortifications, Damage","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"27 April 2023","format":"link","excerpt":"Recent satellite imagery reveals the extent of Russian defensive fortifications built in the past few months in occupied territory in anticipation of Ukraine\u2019s spring counteroffensive: see coverage from CNN and Reuters. 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