During the last round of talks held with China in October, the Indian Army used the Sambhav smartphones which have now been given in large numbers to the officers in the force.
Indian Army’s Sambhav Smart Phone
During the last round of talks held with China in October, the Indian Army used the Sambhav smartphones which have now been given in large numbers to the officers in the force. The SAMBHAV (Secure Army Mobile Bharat Version) — functions on contemporary 5G technology and is fully encrypted.
Around 30,000 of these Sambhav phones have been given to officers for secure communication and have been provided with their own applications which can be used for sharing critical information as well. The handsets used for the project have applications like M-Sigma which is seen as an equivalent of the popular WhatsApp application for messaging and sharing documents, pictures and videos. The Army is also hoping that the internal smartphones which can be used on Airtel and Jio mobile networks, will help in curbing the leakage of important documents in public.
A number of Indian Army officials had been using WhatsApp and other similar applications for sharing information and documents and almost all of them were getting leaked in the public domain. The phones also have the numbers of all important functionaries and the officials don’t need to save the numbers, the sources said.
The Indian Army has indigenously developed the “end-to-end secure mobile ecosystem” to provide secure communication with instant connectivity.
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