Mobile handsets maker Nokia has claimed that there has not been any drop in sales due to the recent incidents of explosion of BL-5C batteries, used in its phones but manufactured by the Matsushita Company of Japan.
"There has been no drop in our sales in India. Use of fake batteries and chargers resulted in the explosions, for which Nokia is not responsible," Nokia's Marketing Director Devinder Kishore told PTI.
He said the batteries which exploded could have been tampered with.
Following the Nokia product advisory, many consumers in India using BL-5C batteries have received replacements and the rest were being accessed.
Nokia, he said, continued to have 53 per cent market share in India.
Kishore said that Nokia had issued a product advisory applying to 46 million BL-5C batteries, manufactured by Matsushita Battery Industrial Co Ltd of Japan between December 2005 and November 2006, after about 100
incidents of overheating were reported globally.
"No serious injury or property damage have been reported," Kishore said.
Nokia started its India operations in 1995 and has set up its 10th mobile device manufacturing facility in Chennai to meet the rising demand in the country.
The manufacturing facility is operational with an investment of $150 million and currently has a workforce of 4,100.
Kishore said that India was the second largest market for the company globally and Nokia was working closely with its Indian arm to increase the company's geographical coverage and lower costs.
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