Brightstar Corporation starts India operations

Brightstar Corporation, a $2 billion company and a world leader in value-added supply chain management and mobile solutions for the wireless industry globally, has now launched its operations in India, a promising market for wireless telephony.

Brightstar Telecom India Pvt Ltd, a 100 per cent subsidiary of Brightstar Corporation, is headquartered in Mumbai with a branch office in Delhi and plans to open new branch offices across the country in near future.

Brightstar aims to provide global expertise, domestic reach and economy of scale, while adding value to the country's wireless industry.

Brightstar Telecom aspires to support the Indian telephony industry with faster access to newer technologies by providing low to mid and high-end products along with supply chain management, inventory control and integrated services to enable network operators, distributors as well as retailers, provide a complete range of fixed and wireless products to its end users at any given time.

Brightstar Telecom will be the only one-stop shop for the wireless industry in the country by offering product distribution, integrated supply chain and logistics services, fixed wireless manufacturing, wireless data and telecom solutions and emerging technologies.

Arun Batra, country head of Brightstar Telecom, said, "Wireless service in India is expected to grow exponentially in the near future. Even with a population of over a billion, it is still a highly under-penetrated market in terms of both wireline and wireless communication when compared with countries such as Korea, Malaysia and China. Brightstar's presence will provide increased availability of products and value-added services to wireless network operators, agents, dealers and retailers who serve the wireless telephony market in India. Also, with newer international brands entering India, there is a need to streamline logistics involved in the distribution of mobile devices and wireless services."

Brightstar operates 29 facilities in 23 countries worldwide and is expected to exceed revenues of $2.5 billion in 2005 with a 75 per cent year-on-year growth in wireless devices.

In 2004, Brightstar marketed, sold and distributed over 18 million devices globally from the industries leading manufacturers, this represents almost 3 per cent of the worldwide wireless devices sales.

This year the company expects to handle over 25 million devices. Brightstar is currently working with more than 160 network operators and reaching over 15,000 points-of"�sale globally.

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Brightstar aims to provide global expertise, domestic reach and economy of scale, while adding value to the country's wireless industry.

The company will be the only one-stop shop for the wireless industry in the country by offering product distribution, integrated supply chain and logistics services, fixed wireless manufacturing, wireless data and telecom solutions