Guys really? Does GPS on chinese phones means that it is comprised by china? Don't you know that army has a separate encrypted services? This MOU is for civilian use.
Qualcomm already has released chipsets which support now NAVIC along with other navigational services, please don't push unnecessary rumours.
For NAVIC to evolve you need wide acceptability, these brands have biggest market share so it's obvious that ISRO is making a practical choice which really doesn't affect any of our strategic needs in any way. It rather helps us.
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has said it provided consultation for Qualcomm towards enabling NavIC capability in their Snapdragon mobile chipset.
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