TOKYO, Jan. 17 (UPI) -- Japan and India have agreed to jointly develop technology for a next-generation Internet Protocol network with greater volumes at higher speeds.
Japan's communications minister, Taro Aso, and his Indian counterpart, Dayanidhi Mran, are scheduled to sign an agreement Tuesday in Tokyo to develop information communications technology, Yomiuri Shimbun reported Monday.
Under the agreement, announced Sunday, the two countries will formulate uniform specifications for communications in the run-up to starting work on the IP network.
Japan, a hardware giant, and India, a leading software maker, plan to combine efforts with a view to making Asia's information communications technology the international standard.
The declaration confirms that the two countries will hold regular bureau chief-level talks and cooperate in the development of high-level software indispensable to the next-generation network.
The two governments plan to cooperate in other fields, including the development of technology for fourth-generation cell phones, which can transmit and receive at high speeds quality pictures similar to high-definition images.
