After a meeting between Ravi Shankar Prasad, the Union Minister for Electronics & Information Technology, Communications and Law &Justice and Amit Agarwal, Amazon’s Global Senior Vice President and Country Head for India, Amazon India announced that it will start manufacturing electronic products from India. To begin with, Amazon is going to start manufacturing Amazon Fire…
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Amazon to manufacture Fire TV Stick in India from this year
Amit Agarwal, SVP and Country Head, Amazon India briefed Ravi Shankar Prasad, Minister for Communications, Electronics & Information Technology and Law & Justice on its plans to begin manufacturing Amazon devices in India
Nidhi Singal | February 16, 2021 | Updated 14:22 IST
Amazon to produce devices in India
Reiterating its commitment to the Government of India s Make in India initiative for an Atmanirbhar Bharat, Amazon will start manufacturing Amazon devices in India later this year. Catering to the domestic demand, the e-commerce giant will commence manufacturing of Fire TV Stick at contract manufacturer Cloud Network Technology, a subsidiary of Foxconn in Chennai later this year.
Synopsis
Amazon has partnered Foxconn’s Cloud Network Technology to begin producing Fire TV sticks at its Chennai plant, with an annual capacity of “hundreds of thousands” of units.
Reuters
Amazon is setting up its first device manufacturing line in India to make Fire TV sticks locally and has partnered with Cloud Network Technology, a subsidiary of Foxconn, to begin producing the device at its Chennai plant later this year.
The e-commerce giant claimed that the production line will have an annual capacity of “hundreds of thousands” of units, and will also continuously evaluate manufacturing capacity based on domestic demand for its devices.
Feb 16, 2021, 14:25 PM IST
New Delhi: In a bid to crack down on tele financial frauds and pesky calls, Union Minister for Electronics & Information Technology, Communications and Law & Justice, Ravi Shankar Prasad chaired a high level meeting.
The objective of the government is to address the rising concern and irritation of consumers over Unsolicited Messages on mobile phones, repeated harassment through SMS, promising fraudulent loan transactions and above all make digital transaction safe and secure.
In the meeting, Minister of Communication directed the officials to take strict action against erring telemarketers and individuals involved in harassment of telecom subscribers. The method of harassment includes unsolicited commercial messages or calls. Further, the Minster observed that telecom resources are also being used to carry out financial frauds and dupe the common man of his hard-earned money.Clear directions were issued to the officials to take strict and tangible actio