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Nokia FM pagers to India
January 16, 1995
Nokia Paging and HCL Ltd. have announced of an exclusive supply agreement of Nokia RDS pagers for India.
FM paging has rapidly being taken into use in India with All India Radio (AIR) having already granted licences to five operators for paging services through its existing high power FM transmitters in 17 cities. The operators are expected to make the service available to subscribers in January 1995.
D.S.Puri, President, HCL Ltd. announcing the agreement said: "We are indeed happy to be the first to bring RDS pagers to India. Nokia is the world leader in this business area with a dominant market share and a strong commitment to FM paging industry."
"We chose HCL as our partner because of their significant expertise and experience in the communications and office automation business and also because of their country-wide presence through a large and well established distribution and service network", says Raimo Merenluoto, General Manager of Nokia Paging.
The two models of Nokia FM pagers available in India are the Nokia RDS Alpha and the Nokia Finder FM 100. Both can receive, store and display messages. The Nokia RDS Alpha can receive up to 80 character alpha-numeric messages and the Nokia Finder up 18 digit numeric messages.
Nokia pagers will be launched by HCL in mid January and they will be available nationally within three months. HCL Ltd. will sell pagers both directly and through FM paging operators. FM pagers are popular among the service branch in countries such as the US., France, Czech and Slovak Republics, Hungary and most recently in China.
Nokia and HCL estimate that in India market will grow several tens of thousands of units in this year only. FM paging is the most cost effective of all paging systems available today. It offers a nation-wide roaming facility on a single uniform band, making communication faster, easier and extremely versatile.
Nokia Paging is a division of Nokia Mobile Phones, the world's second largest producer of mobile phones and a part of the Nokia Group, a Finnish telecommunications company.
HCL Limited, a part of the over 250 million USD HCL Group, currently offers to its customers office automation products such as black and white photocopiers, colour copiers, facsimile machines, key telephone systems, document imaging systems and EPABX machines through a countrywide network of 27 sales offices.
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