Made in India Motorola for Rs 1700

Posted on | December 23, 2005 |

World’s second largest maker of mobile phones, Motorola, on Thursday launched its first ‘Made in India’ handset, the C115, for Rs 1,700.

C115 is a mass market phone with high battery life and Hindi messaging capability. The company has bagged a bulk deal from Hutch for the C115.

Commenting on the `Made-in-India’ tag, he said, “The designing and software is done in India, and some components have been imported. An integrated manufacturing should happen shortly.”

While welcoming the Rs 1,700-mobile, telecom minister Dayanidhi Maran said the company should now try to launch a a phone priced at less than Rs 1,000. “That will be the right phone for the mass market in India,” he said.

“I am delighted to see it happening. As much as 98 per cent of the demand in India is voice, and only two per cent is data and value-added services. I am really happy that by December we will be touching the 125-million subscriber mark, a 25-per cent growth in the last nine months. And I am confident that we will achieve the target of 250 million subscribers by 2007,” he said.

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