New Delhi, June 10 -- Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) and the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for joint research, development, testing, deployment and commercialisation of next-generation telecom technologies, BSNL Chairman and Managing Director A. Robert Jerard Ravi said on Wednesday.

"Today we have BSNL and IIT Kanpur. We are entering into an MoU. A lot of activities which are including some joint research works, development, testing, deployment and commercialisation of what we call the next-generation telecom networks," Ravi said after the signing the MoU.

The BSNL chief said the collaboration would focus on advanced communication technologies and support the development...