Motorola facility to start ops from next year
The Sriperumbudur facility is being set up at an investment of $100 million .
By PTI |
CHENNAI: Production of mobile phones from Motorola's manufacturing facility, coming up at a Special Economic Zone at Sriperumbudur near here, will begin in the first quarter of next year.
This was conveyed to IT and Communications Minister Dayanidhi Maran by a team of Motorola officials led by company CEO Ed Zander.
"They also showed me a custom-made phone for the Indian market. Motorola is also evincing keen interest in Wimax technology," Maran told PTI.
The Sriperumbudur facility is being set up at an investment of $100 million and is expected to manufacture one million phones per month.
Zander had inaugurated the company's Rs 60 crore R&D centre at Hyderabad yesterday. The facility would house over 1,000 persons.
To a query on Nokia India CEO Jukka Lehtehla's observation that infrastructure was a huge problem for the company, Maran said these were teething problems faced by an economy, which would be sorted out soon.
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