{"id":920608,"date":"2025-04-09T08:21:13","date_gmt":"2025-04-09T02:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=920608"},"modified":"2025-04-09T09:03:50","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T03:33:50","slug":"alcatel-earmarks-usd-30-million-to-restart-smartphone-business-in-india-ties-up-for-local-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/04\/09\/alcatel-earmarks-usd-30-million-to-restart-smartphone-business-in-india-ties-up-for-local-production\/","title":{"rendered":"Alcatel earmarks USD 30 million to restart smartphone business in India, ties up for local production"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: French technology brand Alcatel has earmarked an initial investment of USD 30 million, about Rs 260 crore, as it gears up to re-enter India&#8217;s mobile phone market after seven years with plans to sell locally-made smartphones, a senior official of the company said. <\/p>\n<p>Alcatel&#8217;s business is operated by Chinese firm TCL Communication under a trademark licence agreement from Nokia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: French technology brand Alcatel has earmarked an initial investment of USD 30 million, about Rs 260 crore, as it gears up to re-enter India&#8217;s mobile phone market after seven years with plans to sell locally-made smartphones, a senior official of the company said. Alcatel&#8217;s business is operated by Chinese firm TCL Communication under a trademark licence agreement from Nokia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,76,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-920608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-new-indian-express","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=920608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=920608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=920608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=920608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}