Huawei to start smartphone manufacturing in India from October

Huawei has announced that it will start to manufacture smartphones in India in collaboration with Flex starting next month. Starting from the first week of October 2016, the Flex manufacturing plant in Chennai will manufacture one of the Honor smartphones models.

Ravi Shankar Prasad, Union Minister, Information & Technology, Law and Justice, made the announcement at Huawei’s ‘Make in India’ inauguration ceremony in New Delhi today.

The plant will have the capacity to make three million units by the end of 2017. In addition, Huawei will be strengthening after sales services in India with over 200 service centers, including more than 30 exclusive Huawei service centers in India. Huawei will also be partnering with more than 50,000 retail outlets by the end of 2016.

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