Finland-based Nokia Networks is considering India as one of the production bases for manufacturing equipments for 5G telecom systems. The company already manufactures equipments for 4G in India. While the technology for 5G has been standardised, its commercial deployment is expected to begin by 2018. The company has not finalised the destination for manufacturing 5G-related equipment as yet but has not ruled out the possibility of settling for India.
Meanwhile, the company is planning to increase the level of domestic content sourcing from the current 20 per cent to 45 per cent by 2018.
