In 2013 Huawei Telecommunications (India) Pvt Ltd applied for government permission to set a manufacturing plant in India. On papers Huawei India is a nondescript Company incorporated in India with Directors from China. Its parent Company Huawei Technologies Company Limited was founded by Ren Zhengfei in China. Huawei literally means Chinese achievement.
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It produces Telephone Switches of C & C08 type and other ancillary hardware useful to Telecom Operators having license to operate telecom services in India. Such switches were launched in 1998 in China.
Telephone Switches are electric apparatus which works like an operator in old school exchanges. In traditional telephone exchanges different lines of phones were manually connected by operators. Manual operators connected domestic lines directly by connection on switch board of local phones. For a long distance call they would call the...