Iran could become a partner of the international company with involvement of BRICS states' specialists developing SailFish mobile operating system, Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation said in a statement on Wednesday.


MOSCOW (Sputnik)�� Earlier in�the day, Russian Minister of�Communications and Mass Media Nikolai Nikiforov and Iranian Minister of�Communication Mahmoud Vaezi met in�Moscow and discussed a number of�issues.


"Vaezi accepted a proposal of�Nikolai Nikiforov about�cooperation in�the sphere of�demonopolization of�software and is ready to�consider the issue to�become one of�the partners of�the international company developing SailFish mobile operating system," the statement said.


According to�the statement, Nikiforov said during�the meeting that the devices using SailFish, which was developing by�the specialists from�the BRICS states were operative in�India and Finland and would be presented in�South Africa later in�the year.

In 2015, Nikiforov visited all the BRICS states, namely Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, and presented an idea to�create an international project that could become an alternative to�the existing mobile operating systems, such as�Android and iOS.

SailFish is a mobile OS, which is based on�the Linux kernel. The OS is being developed by�a number of�communities from�different countries.

By Sputnik