ISRO signs deal with OPPO for NavIC messaging service

Last Updated13/12/2021

To strengthen the Research and Development (R&D) of NaVIC or the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS) messaging service, the Indian Space Research Organisation has signed a pact with Oppo India.
NavIC is a messaging service platform, which provides regional navigation services covering the entire country and an area up to 1,500 km beyond the Indian boundaries.

As per the MoU, both ISRO and Oppo India will exchange technical information of NavIC messaging services to build rapid, ready-to-use, end-to-end application-specific solutions.
This will enable integrating NavIC messaging service with the mobile handset platform keeping in mind the need of Indian users.

Indian regional navigation satellite system (IRNSS) or NavIC is an independent regional navigation satellite system designed to provide accurate position information service to users in India as well as the region extending up to 1500 km from Indian boundaries.
The platform provides two types of services, namely, Standard Positioning Service (SPS) which is provided to all the users, and Restricted Service (RS), which is an encrypted service, provided only to the authorised users.