Struggling US telecom giant Motorola is exploring the possibility of shifting part of the manufacturing facility it is closing in Singapore to India. China and Thailand are also on the radar. Top sources said India is high on the list since Motorola already has a plant in Chennai and a large domestic mobile phone base of over 120 million phones annually.
Mobile handset manufacturer, Motorola has launched an entry-level phone, Motofone, to tap the rural market in India.
BSNL can go ahead with its over Rs 20,000 crore (Rs 200 billion) GSM expansion plan as Motorola withdraws its application challenging the former's tender process in the Delhi High Court.
Mobile manufacturer Motorola is planning to introduce around 10-15 new models for the Indian market this year, including `Motorokr' and `MotoQ' for the upper segment of the market.
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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.
Motorola has modified the terms of compensation for co-chief executive Jha, including a bigger paycheck, if the restructuring falls through.
The world's second largest mobile phone company, Motorola, is expecting its manufacturing unit in India to commence production by the first quarter of 2007.
In an interview to The Wall Street Journal, Motorola co-chief executive Sanjay Jha said he is willing to look at using Microsoft's operating system if the software company gets it right.
Motorola on Thursday launched its smart phones jointly with Microsoft, tying up with Hutch as a service provider, which will allow the users to access corporate e-mails, surf internet, download music and stream video on mobile phones.
Motorola said it has crossed the three million device sales milestone.
Motorola would permanently freeze its US pension plans from March 1, 2009, preserving vested benefits accrued by employees and retirees but eliminating future benefit accruals. ."Employees would not receive a salary increase in 2009," the company said.
Global communications major Motorola said on Wednesday that it has bagged a $43 million contract from basic operator Tata Teleservices for deployment of Code Division Multiple Access network in Maharashtra, Mumbai and Goa.
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Despite the robust growth in this country, Apple's India share in its overall global sales remained modest -- constituting 1.5 per cent of its overall turnover of $389 billion in FY23.
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Motorola, a global leader in wireless communications, launched E398, the first 3-D Surround Sound Music Phone, in Mumbai on Friday.
Handset-maker Motorola Mobility India on Monday launched the country's first Android-powered dual SIM touch screen smartphone, priced at Rs 31,999.
Motorola Inc, a global leader in integrated communications, on Wednesday announced the opening of two new research and design centres in Bangalore and Taipei.
Motorola, the world's second largest mobile manufacturer in the world, plans to continue to offer cheaper phones in the emerging markets even as there are reports that it may register losses in its first-quarter results and cut its sales forecast.
India is one of the top three markets for telecom company Motorola in the Asia Pacific region, a senior official said in New Delhi.
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Can the launch of smartphones under its own brand name by Finnish company HMD Global - despite having a licence to use the Nokia brand which it bought from Microsoft - help it regain its once dominant position in the mobile phone sweepstakes in India, where it was once routed? In 2009, Nokia was the country's largest MNC with revenues of $4 billion and a market share touching 80 per cent in 2010. After this, its fortunes fell. Although it had been the first global player to set up an assembly plant, not only to assemble phones for the local market but for exports, it had to shut down operations in 2014.
Motorola also said it will consider manufacturing in India to comply with the eligibility criteria of deals with state-run carriers.
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Delhi high court had last week stayed BSNL to award the contract till the next hearing, but had allowed the public sector company to continue with the evaluation process.
Major mobile handset companies have announced reduction to the extent of 26 per cent in their prices across all the segments following the reduction of basic customs duty to 5% along with abolition of 4% SAD announced in the Mini-Budget.
CanvasM, a joint venture between Tech Mahindra and Motorola, is planning to launch 6,000 new indigenously developed applications for mobile phones.
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Phone manufacturers, like car companies, are capitalising on the latest trends and working with cool designers as the market for designer phones is big, and getting bigger. Of the 180 million mobile subscribers, young consumers are estimated to account for around 60 per cent (108 million units). It is this consumer group that the mobile vendors are planning to lure with premium, designer or special edition mobile phones, this season.
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