Smartphone manufacturer OPPO is planning to set up a handset manufacturing unit in India by August to primarily tend to the domestic market. The company mentions that some of devices manufactured here will also be exported to overseas markets. However, note that the manufacturer did not mention where it would set up base, how much it would invest in it and what the expected output of the plant will be. The company does mention that it currently has 120 services centres in India and is looking to expand that number to 200 by the end of the year. OPPO, which entered the Indian market early last year, claims to have sold over 400,000 devices in the country, and is aiming to sell 1.5 million units this year. The manufacturer currently sells around 10 different devices in the country. Nokia Chennai plant: Earlier this week Nokia India withdrew its plea seeking urgent permission to sell its mobile manufacturing unit in Chennai. This was after the company had suspended handset production at its Chennai plant in November 2014, following the termination of its manufacturing contract with Microsoft. The Chennai plant, was reduced to a contract manufacturing unit with Microsoft as the sole customer earlier last year, after Nokia was forced to exclude it from the Microsoft acquisition when the deal closed in April this year due to pending tax disputes with the Supreme Court as well as Madras High Court. A Nokia spokesperson had then told Medianama that they were still evaluating…
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