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Nokia
today has announced its plan to start manufacturing base
stations controllers, a key mobile equipment, in Chennai.
"We will set up high-end base stations controller
manufacturing unit in Chennai. In April, Nokia announced its
plan to set up a mobile device production facility in
Chennai. Base station controller production will begin at the
same time with terminal production in the first half of 2006.
With this, Nokia becomes the first telecom vendor in India to
manufacture both network infrastructure and terminals in the
country," Simon Beresford-Wylie, executive VP and GM Nokia,
said.
"India is already amongst the top five telecom markets in the
works and set to reach the third position in the next few
years. In order to sustain this growth, rapid expansion of
mobile networks will be essential. Nokia's investment in
local base station controller manufacturing aims to meet this
requirement," Wylie said.
Wylie said base station controller manufacturing was a
high-end and complex process and would allow them to tap the
engineering talent in India.
Nokia is the leading GSM supplier to the top five GSM
operators in the country. The company had earlier announed an
investment upto $150 million for its mobile handset
manufacturing unit.
Union Telecom Minister Dayanidhi Maran expects the telecom
manufacturing FDI this year to touch $800 million.
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