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Nokia, a global telecom gear and equipment maker, has announced that it will extend manufacturing of PON optical line terminals (OLTs) in India. The company will be manufacturing the PON OLTs in its Sriperimbudur factory, located near Chennai. Nokia said that it has decided to extend manufacturing in India because of the increasing demand from local customers in the country as well as demand seen in the international markets. The demand for broadband is increasing in the country each year that goes by. More and more people are working from their homes and are also relying on OTT (over-the-top) content to get access to entertainment inside their homes.
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Thus the telcos and the internet service providers (ISPs) in India are driving the deployment of fiber for providing fixed-line broadband services, and fibersation would also be important for the telcos to roll out 5G throughout the nation. Nokia is going to benefit from extending manufacturing within the country as it is already a part of the central government’s Production Linked Incentive (PLI) scheme. By manufacturing in India, Nokia would be able to serve the entire Asia-Pacific region as there’s strong demand for fiber in markets such as Southeast Asia, India and Japan.
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Nokia said that while most of the demand for fiber would be to provide the FTTH (fiber-to-the-home) services but there is also significant demand from the mobile network operators (MNOs) as they deploy 5G. Nokia’s planned production of PON OLTs in India will give a boost to expand the company’s production base and geographic reach.
