Telit opens India office

BANGALORE, INDIA: Telit Communications SPA, an international leader in machine-to-machine (M2M) communications, announced the start of its India operations by opening an office in New Delhi, India.

This move marks the reinforcement of Telit’s commitment towards the Indian M2M market, which holds great potential for its products and solutions. Acknowledged as the M2M innovation leader worldwide, Telit, which was present in the country through its distributors, is keen to develop the Indian market by offering solutions that will benefits customers and end consumers significantly.

Telit sells its products through a network of value added resellers to more than 3,000 communications solution providers and systems integrators in more than 60 countries around the World and was present in India since 2009 through its distributors Arrow Electronics and Nest Connectivity Solutions.

With the launch of its India operations the company is resolute to bring its advanced and abundant experiences that will significantly benefit customers in sectors like Utilities, Retail, Financial, Transportation, Consumer Electronics amongst many others. Telit’s GSM/GPRS modules are currently used by many leading AMR and Fleet Management product manufacturers in the country.

As per Telit’s strategy in the Indian market, the company plans to increase its penetration by investing in direct and indirect technical expertise that will help nurture the evolution of M2M market in India. The company also plans to increase its distributor and channel network from the present two distributors to five in the next three to five years. There could be a possibility that the company might look at separate distributors for the Northern and Southern region in the country due to vast cultural differences. Government business would play an important role going forward and Telit plans to garner a major chunk of the business (over 40 percent) in the next three to five years.

“India is a strategic market for Telit and is perfectly poised to provide us with rapid and sustainable growth for the coming few years. Introduction of large scale national agendas such as R-APDRP and AADHAAR (UID) are fuelling the growth of M2M market in India and this presents a perfect situation for us to introduce world class solutions to the Indian market. We would like to share our experiences and specialty skills in M2M in the local domestic market so that regional corporations can count on a broader range of choices for their application development efforts,” said Hosang Kim, Asia sales director, Telit Wireless Solutions.

Telit has a robust technical support and sales distribution network in place in the Indian market that is capable of providing consolidated solutions to its customers.

“We see a great potential of M2M wireless technologies in India. There are many current and future initiatives being undertaken/ planned by both public and private sectors that will benefit tremendously from the use of M2M applications both in terms of cost and efficiency accruals. We intend to introduce thought provoking innovations that find large scale applications delivering immense economic and social value,” said Ashish Gulati, country manager, India Operations, Telit Communications SPA.