 Motorola phone production next year
Production of mobile phones from Motorola's manufacturing facility, which is being set up at a Special Economic Zone at Sriperumbudur, near Chennai, will begin in the first
quarter of next year.
Speaking to newspersons after the CEO, Edward J Zander, and a team from Motorola met him recently at his residence in Chennai, Union Minister for IT and
Communications Dayanidhi Maran said the team had informed him that work was on schedule.
"They also showed me a custom-made phone for the Indian market. Motorola is also evincing keen interest in Wimax technology," Maran said.
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. The facility would house over 1,000 persons.
To a query on the remarks of Jukka Lehtehla, CEO of Nokia's Indian operations, that infrastructure was a huge problem for the company, Dayanidhi said it was an initial
problem faced by an economy which would be sorted out soon.
(Agencies)
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