India Inches Past US to Become Second Largest Smartphone Market: Counterpoint
Cell phone shipments in the nation grew 23.3 percent to touch 100 million units amid 2015, contrasted with 81.1 million gadgets in the earlier year, a report by Counterpoint Research said.

"India has crept past the US to wind up the second biggest cell phone market as far as dynamic extraordinary cell phone client base on the planet with the base intersection 220 million clients. This talks volume for the scale India market accommodates any player in the portable associated biological system," Counterpoint Research Senior Analyst Tarun Pathak said.

India still has far to go as the cell phone entrance of the aggregate potential populace is still beneath 30 percent, he included.

Driven by solid selection of 4G LTE gadgets, cell phone shipments grew 15 percent to 25.3 million units amid the October-December 2015 quarter contrasted with 22 million units in the year-prior period, it said in a report.

"The Indian cell phone request became emphatically amid the Christmas season in the Q4 2015 quarter. In any case, the buyer request wound down subsequent to mid-November prompting cell phone shipments decrease 11 percent consecutively," Counterpoint Research Analyst Pavel Naiya said.

In any case, LTE shipments became successively, as more than one in two cell phone sent was LTE competent, Naiya included.

The quarter likewise saw rollout of marquee LTE administrations by couple of system administrators including the delicate dispatch by the tremendously anticipated green field administrator Reliance Jio.

With the declining normal offering cost of LTE able cell phones, Counterpoint assesses that LTE administrations uptake from the developing Indian cell phone client base will be much speedier than what the 3G uptake rate has been.

Amid the final quarter, more than 40 percent of the cellular telephones sent were cell phones. Additionally, half of cellular telephones sold amid the quarter were "Made in India" with more than 20 cell telephone marks now amassing their telephones in India.

Toward the end of the December 2015 quarter, Samsung drove the cell phone market with 28.6 percent offer, trailed by Micromax (14.3 percent), Lenovo (11.4 percent), Intex (9.6 percent) and Lava (6.8 percent).


As far as the aggregate business sector (cell phones and highlight telephones), Samsung again drove the count with 23.6 percent offer, trailed by Micromax (13.7 percent), Intex (13 percent), Lava (12.6 percent) and Lenovo (4.8 percent).

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