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Kolkata, March 5 : Nokia India has shipped 20 million handsets from its manufacturing hub located at Chennai during the unit's 11-month existence.
Besides meeting the India demand, Nokia has exported handsets to South-east Asian countries from its Sriperumbudur unit in Chennai.
Nokia's director, sales, APAC region, Sunil Dutt declined to comment on the kind of handsets Nokia is manufacturing at the plant. "We will have enough capacity to increase the handset production whenever there is greater demand in the market."
Nokia announced a total investment of $150 million in the next few years for its Chennai unit.
According to some market estimates, in 2005-06 the mobile market grew by 50% and the total market size was around Rs 14300 crore.
"One of the growth areas of mobile handsets is the rural market and we want to be present wherever there is an operator footprint. We want to lower the cost of ownership of the handsets and make it affordable to the people," Dutt said.
Nokia's lowest-priced handset in the market costs Rs 1799.
Dutt was in Kolkata to launch Nokia's new mobile handset 6300, which is 13.1mm thin. The handset, which has a 2 megapixel camera with 8X zoom, is priced at Rs 12900.
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