Interview with Allen Burnes of Motorola

Posted on | October 15, 2005 |

The Financial Express has an interview with Allen Burnes, VP - High Growth Markets, Mobile Devices. Motorola Mobile Devices has established its High Growth Market (HGM) headquarters in Delhi with the senior management team relocating to India right now.

In fact, between 1991 and today, India has emerged as an R&D hub for Motorola. Several critical components of product/feature development are developed here and the country has the distinction of carrying out cutting edge R&D and engineering work for Motorola globally. Just this year, we announced the setting up of Motorola Labs in India and the expansion of the Global Software Group (GSG) from Bangalore to Hyderabad. There was also the launch of the new facilities for Motorola’s Core Networks Division (CND) and the Embedded Communications Computing (ECC) group.

Motorola started selling mobile phones in India in 1995 and was one of the first telecom companies to enter the country. But it failed to capitalise on its early mover advantage. Currently, Nokia leads the mobile handset market in India with a (GSM and CDMA combined) volume share of 67 per cent followed by Samsung and Sony Ericsson with 13 and 7 per cent marketshares respectively. Now, the $31 billion company is planning a come back with a mobile phone for the sub-Rs 2,000-segment to expand its customer base.

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