Nokia phones maker HMD Global working closely with EMS companies; keen on making India export hub

New Delhi: HMD Global, which sells Nokia brand of mobile phones, is working closely with Indian electronics manufacturing services (EMS) companies and is keen on making the country an export hub in the future, a senior company executive said. The company, which has introduced six new Nokia phones across three distinct lines, is also focussed on bringing 5G phones to the mass market.

“India is a priority market for us, not just from fans and from a marketing point of view but also from a production and manufacturing point of view. “We are already manufacturing 100 per cent of our devices that we are selling today in India, and starting from last year, we are working closely with some of the Indian EMS partners,” HMD Global Vice-President Sanmeet Kochhar said.