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Motorola?s India Centre To Develop Mobile Handsets

June 1, 2004
The Financial Express

Motorola has chosen its software global centre in India to design and develop new entry-level mobile handsets, both GSM and CDMA. The new handsets are expected to hit the market in the year 2005. The India centre will also be involved in high-end R&D work on next-generation wireless infrastructure for the emerging and price sensitive markets, India being one among them. It would also focus on developing products around 4G and 3G wireless technologies and WLAN. Sammy Sana, MD, Motorola global software group (GSG), India, said, “Our effort currently is to develop handsets for price sensitive nations as we optimize hardware and software. In the next couple of years, we are confident of hitting the market with these products”. Though Sana could not quantify the price point for these handsets, he added, “The prices will be considerably lower as compared to others at that point of time”.


Motorola is also beefing up its team of engineers in India. The company is looking at increasing the overall engineering team by 15 percent every year. The company currently has 1,250 engineers in its global software and R&D centre in India. GSG India is one third of GSG’s total engineering strength worldwide, which is around 3,500 professionals, including the Indian team.

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