Production of mobile phones from Motorola's manufacturing facility, coming up at a special economic zone at Sriperumbudur near Chennai, 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 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 (Rs 600 million) R&D centre at Hyderabad on Monday.
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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