Ericsson, Huawei plan domestic 5G gear manufacturing; Nokia claims 20K 5G radio shipped from India

NEW DELHI: Telecom gear maker Ericsson and Huawei are planning to start manufacturing of 5G radio products in India for domestic as well as for exports, even as Finnish gear maker Nokia said that it has already shipped 5G radios from its Chennai factory and is now planning to ramp its capacity.

“In 2018, we announced the exports of radio products from our factory in Pune and I can assure you, that we are ready to ‘Switch on’ the manufacture of 5G radios, here in India, for India bands and prepared to start deployments. In other words, we are ready for production in India for India,” Nunzio Mirtillo, Senior Vice President and Head of Market Area South East Asia, Oceania & India said at during his speech at the IMC 2019.