Ericsson to set up R&D centre in India

Category: News | No Comments | Posted on October 24, 2005

Ericsson has announced that it will invest several hundred million dollars every year in India. It will set-up a new R&D center in Chennai besides building a Global Services Delivery Centre (GSDC) in Gurgaon. It will convert its India NOC (National Operating Centre) to regional NOC (RNOC) for Asia-Pacific customers.

Ericsson already has a manufacturing facility in Rajasthan, where it manufactures radio base stations with site solutions. The company would now upgrade it to incorporate manufacturing of mobile switching centers and base station controller.

The new R&D center would perform R&D in areas such as service layers and VAS. At present, Ericsson does R&D work along with its partners Wipro and TCS. The company currently employs over 1500 persons in 22 locations in the country.

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