7/28/2019 Anew Study on the Mobile Handset Market Has Some Bad News for Home

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Anew study on the mobile handset market has some bad news for home-grown handset makers. If the data put together by CyberMedia groups flagship journal for t he telecom industry Voice & Data i s anything to go by, barringKarbonn and Lava, none of the Indian handset players has been able to face up to the challenge thrown at them by global handset makers in 2011-12. Their mainstay feature phones saw a negative growth while the entry levelsmartphones of various companies saw a marginal rise.

Indian mobile phone brands that had hoped to make a mark by sourcing Chinese handsets and selling them only on the price plank were in for a big surprise. These players will have to quickly rethink their product, marketing andservice strategy afresh to put their house in order, said Ibrahim Ahmad, group editor, Voice & Data.

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Overall, the Indian mobile handset market saw a drop of 5 per cent in revenues in 2011-12. The revenues dropped to Rs 31,215 crore from Rs 33,031 crore a year back. The survey by Voice & Data attributes this drop to de-growth inthe feature phones sales as well as lower average selling values. As consumers look for applications beyond voice and SMS th e market will see fight for high end f eature phones and smart phones intensify further. Consumers can alsolook forward to steeper price drops and more features in the same price. according to Ahmad.

The annual study V&D 100 surveyed over 30 mobile handset firms - both multi-national and Indian selling feature phones, multimedia phones, enterprise phones and smartphones in India.

The disappearing act done by the homegrown handset makers was a big surprise of the year. Homegrown handset company Micromax with revenues of Rs 1,978 crore ranked No. 3 among Voice & Data100 Top10 mobile handsetbrands recording a 13 per cent negative growth. Micromax had a market share of 6.3 per cent.

The other Indian player to post revenues of over Rs 1,000 crore was Karbonn. The company grew its revenues 32 per cent to emerge as the No. 5 player with a market share of 4.3 per cent.

Nokia remained the No.1 player 2011-12 with revenue of Rs 11,925 crore, despite an 8 per cent drop over the Rs 12,929 crore revenue posted in 2011. The Finnish company lost market share in smartphones and multi-media segmentto Samsung, HTC and Apple, among others. Korean company Samsung grew its revenues 38 per cent t o Rs 7,891 crore and was at th e No. 2 spot with a market share of 25.3 per cent.

TOP 10 INDIA MOBILE HANDSET VENDORS: VOICE & DATA100 SURVEY 2012

Rank Brand name 2011-12 2010-11 Change Mkt Share (%age)

1 Nokia 11925 12929 -8 38.2

2 Samsung 7891 5720 38 25.3

3 Micromax 1978 2289 -14 6.3

4 Blackberry 1460 1950 -25 4.7

5 Karbonn 1327 1004 32 4.3

6 HTC 923 450 105 3.0

7 Spice 790 920 -14 2.5

8 LG 780 1834 -57 2.5

9 Huawei 750 626 20 2.4

10 GFive 670 1326 -49 2.1

Total 31,215.00 33,031.00 -5 100.0

Source: Cybermedia's Voice&Data Annual survey of the industry 2012Revenue in Rs crore

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Among the other global companies in the V&D100 Top 10 study, Canadian BlackBerry maker Research In Motion dropped the most, 25 per cent, to post revenues of Rs 1,460 crore. At No 4 Blackberry had a market share of 4.7 percent on the back of entry level smart phones last year.

Taiwanese handset maker HTC saw maximum growth 105 per cent, among all the brands surveyed by Voice&Data. HTC's revenue more than doubled to Rs 923 crore, from Rs 450 crore, to inch a 3 per cent market share. The otherkey players in the Top 10 list include spice Telecom (Rs 790 crore), LG (Rs 780 crore), Huawei (Rs 760 crore) and GFive (Rs 670 crore).

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