BANGALORE, INDIA – An anticipated boom in mobile telephony use in India is attracting multinational and local companies to establish manufacturing operations in the country. Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson in Stockholm is planning to make radio base stations in India. “India is a vibrant market from the communications point of view,” Carl-Henric Svanberg, chief executive officer […]

The results of reform have been encouraging. The Indian market for equipment and services is expected to jump to $24.3 billion by 2006, up from $13.7 billion in 2001, according to telecom research firm Frost & Sullivan. The offshoring movement has created demand for networking equipment. Those facilities need the fast, secure phone and Internet

Unsurprisingly, it took decades after India achieved independence from the British in 1947 for the country to gain its political and economic footing. Early leaders ran a closed society and enacted tight government restrictions on the ownership of foreign investments — an understandable impulse given the country’s history. But the current telecom boom has its