Mobile Handset Market In

India

History about Mobile Phone

Amobile phone(also known as

acellular
phone) is aphonethat
can make and receive telephone
callsover aradio linkwhile moving
around a wide geographic area.
It does so by connecting to acellular
networkprovided by mobile phone
operator, allowing access to thepublic
telephone network.

 The first handheld mobile cell phone was

demonstrated byMotorolain 1973.[1]
The first commercial automated cellular
network was launched in Japan byNTTin
1979.[2]
The first generation ("1G") systems could
support far more simultaneous calls, but
still used analog technology.[3]
In 1991, the second generation
(2G)digitalcellular technology was
launched in Finland byRadiolinjaon
theGSMstandard.[4]

 In 2001, the third generation (3G) was

launched in Japan byNTT DoCoMoon
theWCDMAstandard.[5]
This was followed by 3.5G, 3G+ or turbo 3G
enhancements based on the high speed
packet access.
By 2009, it had become clear that, at some
point, 3G networks would be overwhelmed
by the growth of bandwidth-intensive
applications like streaming media.[6]
Consequently, the industry began looking
to data-optimized 4th-generation
technologies.
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Mobile Handset Market Share in

2013 & 2014

Mobile Handsets V/s F.D.I

Mobile Handset V/S F.D.I

The sale of mobile handset have increased
from a minor 17.5 million in 2003-04 to
223 millions in 2010-11. [7]
Major increase being in the year 2010-11
followed by 2009-10 with the sale of about
55 million handset.[8]
The major amount of FDI being in telecom
industry in years from 2007-09 of about
$5000 millions, which provided the major
opportunities for different companies to
come in Indian market.

 The FDI limit being increased from 49%

to 74% being the major reason for the
Increase in FDI.
This inflow of FDI provided in roads for
many companies which started their
production in India.
Only 5 local manufacturers in 2008 and
the number stands at 28 now.
Fall in the market share of Nokia, L.G.,
and Motorola.
Local manufacturers, Micromax leads
the race.

 There are many mobile players like

Nokia, Motorola, Samsung, Sony
Ericsson, L.G., HTC, Apple, Blackberry,
Alcatel and many more.
Top 5 local manufactures are
Micromax, Karbonn Mobiles, Spice
Mobiles Ltd, Videocon Industries Ltd
and Lava International Ltd.

Compan
y

Total
Handset
Sales value
in F.Y 1112

Total
Handset
Sales
value in
F.Y 12-13

Value
Market
Share In
F.Y 11-12

Value
Market
Share In
F.Y12-13

Samsung

7891

11328

25.186

31.51

Nokia

11925

9780

38.06

27.20

Micromax

1978

3138

6.31

8.72

Karbonn

1327

2297

4.23

6.39

Apple

250

1293

0.797

3.59

Total Market 31330

Size in Value
Terms

35946

Revenue in Rs crore, market share in%

Source: Voice Data Survey of Indian MobileHandsetsMarket 2012-13

References
(1)- Informatikzentrum Mobilfunk
(IZMF).izmf.de: "The development of
digital mobile communications in
Germany
(2)-Arthur C. Clarke:Profiles of the
Future(1962, rev. eds. 1973, 1983, and
1999, Millennium edition with a new
preface)
(3)-"Swedish National Museum of Science
and Technology". Tekniskamuseet.se.
Retrieved29 July2009.

(4)-UMTS World."History of UMTS and 3G

development". Umtsworld.com.
Retrieved29 July2009.
(5)-Fahd Ahmad Saeed."Capacity Limit
Problem in 3G Networks". Purdue School
of Engineering. Retrieved23 April2010.
(6)-Arthur C. Clarke:Profiles of the
Future(1962, rev. eds. 1973, 1983, and
1999, Millennium edition with a new
preface).
(7)/(8)http://vaibhavgnnugupta.files.wordpress
.com/2012/01/mobile-market-in-indiafinal-report.pdf

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