Telecom and Mobile Research

There has been a tremendous growth in the penetration of the mobile phones in the recent years. Moreover, there has been significant progress in the computing power, memory, display and other features of mobile phones. Telecommunication Research and Innovation Center (TRIC) at IBM Research - India focuses on this exciting area of mobile computing and challenges of the Telecommunication industry with the goal of creating innovative solutions and platforms. Researchers in TRIC collaborate extensively with other IBM business units, telecom service providers as well as academia.

Focused on promoting advanced telecommunications and mobile solutions and infrastructure development, TRIC currently conducts research in following key areas:

• Enabling IT for Emerging Economies utilizing the Mobile Platform
• Telecom and Mobile Analytics
• Telecom Infrastructure and Middleware
• Mobile Application Development Environments and Delivery Platforms
• Enterprise Mobility
• Context-aware Services
• Machine to Machine
• Mobile enabled Industry Solutions (such as Retail, Mobile Money, etc.)