COAI inducts Facebook as Associate Member

COAI has announced the induction of Facebook India Online Services as an Associate Member of the Association. COAI’s Associate Membership comprises of companies that manufacture or support the functioning, promotion, research development and evolution of mobile communications services.

COAI’s other Associate Members include Alcatel Lucent India, Cisco Systems India, Ericsson India, IBM India, GTL Infrastructure, Huawei Technologies, Indus Towers, Intel Corporation, Nokia Solutions and Networks, Qualcomm India, and ZTE India.

Commenting on the development, Ankhi Das, Public Policy Director – India & South Asia, Facebook said, “Joining COAI as an associate member reflects our focus on mobile technologies, access and our continued desire to work in collaboration with the industry to increase connectivity. We look forward to playing an active role as a member.” 

Rajan S Mathews, Director General, COAI added here, “We welcome Facebook India Online Services to the COAI family. Social networking, especially Facebook, has changed the way Indians work, play, communicate, socialise and do business. We believe this will further grow to become a crucial part of and influence the socio-economic culture in the country. We feel that Facebook’s active participation in COAI activities will result in mutual value addition and bring the much needed synergy of functioning between the service providers and the content/VAS players.”

Having started as an association for mobile service providers, COAI has today expanded to be a thought leader in the telecom and broadband industry, with members including cellular service providers, telecom infrastructure companies, and telecom equipment manufacturers; and still expanding to include other allied and critical stakeholders of the sector.

Founded in 2004, Facebook has more than 1.32 billion monthly active users globally, including over 100 million monthly active users in India.