I have written in the past about the excellent book Start-up Nation by Dan Senor, exploring the entrepreneurial success of Israel in creating high performing technology companies.
Yesterday, Singapore Telecommunications and Amdocs announced that they are establishing a joint R&D centre in Raanana as part of SingTel’s investment in new technology. Amdocs already operates a similar centre jointly with AT&T.
SingTel said its initial focus will be on voice and facial recognition as well as systems that enable mobile and Wi-Fi networks to work more efficiently.
“More and more mobile customers are using mobile devices for more than just communications,” said Allen Lew, chief executive of SingTel’s digital life group. “In our business it’s not enough to be up to date, we have to be up to tomorrow.”
It makes me wonder if any Canadian carriers are looking at similar ventures.
One of the sessions at The 2013 Canadian Telecom Summit in June will be looking at Building an Innovation Economy. The panel is being moderated by Namir Anani, who heads up the ICT Council of Canada. Panelists include Chris Hodgson of Google, Warren Jestin of Scotiabank, Ron Styles of SaskTel and John Weigelt of Microsoft Canada.
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