COAI expands membership base; includes four telecom companies

NEW DELHI: GSM mobile operators' association COAI has expanded its membership base by including CISCO India, Huawei Technologies, Qualcomm and Alcatel Lucent as associate members.

"Such membership recognises the valuable role that COAI has played and will continue to play in helping companies achieve their objectives and focusing our combined attention on nation building," COAI Director General Rajan S Mathews said.

COAI has members like Aircel, Bharti Airtel, Loop Mobile, Vodafone Essar, Vodafone, Idea Cellular, Spice Communications, Videocon, S Tel, Unitech Wireless, and Etisalat DB Telecom.

The Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) was constituted in 1995 as a registered, non-profit, non-governmental society dedicated to the advancement of communication, particularly modern communication through Cellular Mobile Telephone Services.