{"id":970283,"date":"2025-10-30T07:46:02","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T02:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=970283"},"modified":"2025-10-30T08:07:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T02:37:12","slug":"beyond-assembly-indias-telecom-manufacturing-bets-on-design-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/10\/30\/beyond-assembly-indias-telecom-manufacturing-bets-on-design-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"Beyond assembly: India&#8217;s telecom manufacturing bets on design, AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai: India&#8217;s telecom manufacturing industry is expanding beyond technology assembly towards creating indigenous designs and AI-driven technologies, underscoring a government push to lessen import reliance and boost exports amid global geopolitical upheavals and their impact on supply chains. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Policy levers like PLI (production-linked incentives) and design-led incentives are drawing OEMs (original equipment makers) to localise production and R&amp;D. The opportunity is two-fold: strengthen supply chain sovereignty, and capture global demand from emerging markets,&#8221; said Vinish Bawa, partner and telecom leader at PwC India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai: India&#8217;s telecom manufacturing industry is expanding beyond technology assembly towards creating indigenous designs and AI-driven technologies, underscoring a government push to lessen import reliance and boost exports amid global geopolitical upheavals and their impact on supply chains. &#8220;Policy levers like PLI (production-linked incentives) and design-led incentives are drawing OEMs (original equipment makers) to localise production and R&amp;D. The opportunity is two-fold: strengthen supply chain sovereignty, and capture global demand from emerging markets,&#8221; said Vinish Bawa, partner and telecom leader at PwC India.<\/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":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-970283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970283","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=970283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=970283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=970283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=970283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}