Handset market worth Rs.8,805 crore in FY05
29 Jun 2005
New Delhi: The Indian mobile handset market was worth Rs8,805 crore in 2004-05. A whopping 84 per cent were GSM handsets valued at Rs7,384 crore with Nokia alone accounting for 62.3 per cent market share.
According to a report by Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) quoting a Voice & Data report of June 2005, the share of GSM handsets was even higher than the GSM connections, which stood at 75 per cent for the same period.
The
report said CDMA handsets accounted for 16 per cent of market share at Rs1,421
crore.
In
the GSM space, Samsung was way behind Nokia with 11.3 per cent market share
followed by Motorola at 9.2 per cent and Sony Ericsson at 4 per cent while
LG had a market share of 2 per cent. Other brands such as Sagem, Alcatel,
Ben Q, Bird, Siemens, Philips, Blackberry, Krome, Palm, Kejian cornered 10.3
per cent market share in 2004-05, the COAI report claimed.
In the CDMA handset universe, LG was the undisputed leader with a market share of 59.1 per cent followed by Nokia at 17.6 per cent, Samsung at 6.3 per cent, Motorola at 5.3 per cent, Kyocera at 5.2 per cnt and others like Hyundai at 6.5 per cent.
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