 "ISRO's NaVIC to seep into mobiles by next year, scientist reveals at Space Expo")
Mobile phones may have the
**NaVIC system** , a home-grown GPS, as early as next year, a senior
**ISRO** scientist said Friday, 7 September at the
**Bangalore Space Expo** 2018. Speaking at a panel discussion at the Space Expo, Nilesh Desai, Deputy Director of the ISRO’s Space Applications Center, Ahmedabad said some mobile companies are working on having the
**NaVIC system** in their handsets. “It will be (mobile phones with NaVIC) available as early as 2019,” he said. [caption id=“attachment_5142871” align=“alignnone” width=“1280”] Representative image. Image courtesy: Indian Defense Update[/caption] Requesting anonymity, another Indian Space Research Organisation scientist said a Taiwanese company is working on building a chip that can have the NaVIC system in
**mobile phones** . However, Desai said asking mobile phone companies to have the NaVIC system may not be compulsory as there is no law in the country that mandates it. “We don’t have such law.
**Russia** has made it compulsory to have their
**navigation systems** in mobile phones in their countries,” he said. Russia has developed
**Glonass** .
Mobile phone manufacturers are not obligated to use the navigation system, a senior official said.
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