Bharti Teletech rolls out 20 million telephone sets

NEW DELHI: Telephone instruments maker Bharti Teletech on Sunday said its Ludhiana facility has achieved a production mark of 20 million telephones since its inception in 1987.

The facility has become India's first manufacturing unit to produce 20 million telephone instruments and has also surpassed Chinese benchmark on the productivity front by rolling out three million instruments last fiscal, Bharti said in a statement.

The company plans to achieve the production mark of 30 million instruments by 2010, it said.

The consignment carrying 20 millionth phone was flagged off by company's Vice-Chairman and Managing Director Rakesh Bharti Mittal.

"What started as a small manufacturing unit way back in the year 1987 has today become a world-class manufacturing center, surpassing even the Chinese benchmarks in productivity levels. A wide range of world-class products from Bharti Teletech have delighted customers in over thirty countries across five continents," Mittal said.

The company manufactures telephone instruments under Beetel and GE brands.

Bharti Teletech took as many as 16 years to roll out the first 10 million instruments while the remaining 10 million were produced in just four years, it said.

The company commands a domestic market share of about 60 per cent.