Some of its rivals, such as Sweden's Ericsson, have already transferred all their mobile-telephone production to subcontractors rather than trying to keep up withthe research and development spending and technical infrastructure needed to continue to make them on their own.
The French version of the module was produced by the Agricultural Research Centre for International Development (CIRAD) with financial support from theTechnical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation ACP-EU (CTA), the French Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs and UNESCO.