Pioneer of CDMA technology, Qualcomm Inc has said it will continue to invest in India to expand its two research and delivery centres in the country.
"At present we have 200 people at the two centres and we will continue to expand by hiring the right people," Qualcomm's co-founder and Chairman Irwin Mark Jacobs told reporters after delivering the keynote address at CII's CEO forum last week.
Refusing to divulge the exact number of engineers that the company would add in India, he said it would depend on the number of quality people available.
Jacobs said a large number of people would be required by Qualcomm as more CDMA networks were rolled out and SM operators move to providing third generation of mobile services using WCDMA technology.
The company has two centres in India. Qualcomm's centre in Hyderabad is in to designing chipsets and developing software for chipsets. It also provides support to the operators deploying CDMA technology.
The second centre of Qualcomm is in Mumbai and works on software.
Jacobs said in the coming years all networks would shift to CDMA technology when operators deploy WCDMA technology to offer third generation of mobile services.
"By 2010 more than half of the telecom equipment being shipped will be able to support third generation services," he said.