37 firms apply for telecom PLI, Samsung gives it a miss

Thirty-seven global and local firms, including Nokia, Jabil, Cisco, Flex and Foxconn, have applied for the production-linked incentive (PLI) scheme for telecom equipment manufacturing. Samsung Electronics, however has not applied. The company had earlier not applied for the IT hardware scheme for tablets and laptops either.

Samsung is understood to not have applied because of lack of opportunities in the 5G equipment market for it. Reliance Jio is the only operator which has deployed Samsung radio network for 4G, but for 5G, the former has indicated it will utilise a homegrown solution and has so far not committed to Samsung.