By the year 1995, the License Raj was practically abolished and various industries saw exponential growth in their businesses.
New units were set up which required voice and data links so that production could be monitored round the clock.
Iconet Wireless was the first telecom company in the country to connect factories and offices up to 500 km away. It also provided mobile communication in buses and cars which travelled between Bangalore,
Coimbatore, Salem and up to the port of Tuticorin.
This long distance private intercom system (radio trunking system) handled 1500 subscribers and connected customers in Pondicherry,
Salem, Bangalore, Hosur, Coimbatore, Palghat.
The radio trunking was was fully designed and commissioned by the engineers of Iconet Wireless. Motorola was the supplier of handsets and vehicle mounted radios.
Telecom companies like BPL, Aircel, RPG used the radio network of Iconet Wireless extensively for setting up their paging systems and
Cellular networks in the region.
Iconet is a respected name in the telecom field, admired by the likes of Nokia and Motorola for setting up a radio network costing a fraction of what it would cost internationally. More than a dozen telecom players were given the technical know how to set up similar networks in India. |
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In 1998, Iconet was assigned the task of setting up a radio communication network comprising of VHF, UHF and HF systems.
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