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Indian mobile phone manufacturing will provide the country with nearly all handsets

08/04/201708/02/2017 L. Green

A new report predicts that by 2020, 96 percent of smartphones in the country will have been made there. A new mobile phone manufacturing research report has forecasted that by 2020 almost 96 percent of the smartphones sold in India will have been locally made. India is pushing hard to boost its rate of domestic localization, according to the recent report. Artificial intelligence company, Enixta, joined forces with the Internet & Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) to conduct the analysis and create the report titled: “’Indian Mobile Phone market: Emerging…

Mobile commerce is being driven by cheaper smartphones

09/10/201409/06/2014 Stephanie Beck

Smartphone based shopping saw an growth of an astounding 800 percent last year, and it is still rising. According to data that has been released by Flipkart, an online retailer, it is expecting a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) in mobile commerce of another 150 percent that will occur until 2016. Smartphones are tremendously commonplace and are vital to the growth of the m-commerce sector in India. At the moment, e-commerce in India is estimated to be worth about $4 billion. However, as cheaper handsets have become widely available, it…