Mobile handset makers operating in India expect the government to continue duty differential regime for mobile phones in the upcoming budget, amid business slowdown due to demonetisation and the imminent implementation of goods and service tax (GST) regime. Some feel that while the government sho…
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110 million mobile handsets produced in FY16: ICA & CEAMA
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ‘Make in India’ mission has achieved some success in boosting mobile manufacturing and assembling in the country. The number of handsets manufactured in India nearly doubled in FY16 from the previous year, said Ravi Shankar Prasad, Information Tech…
India’s smartphone revolution: 35 units, 37,000 jobs in 2 years
India has seen about 35 new smartphone factories in the past two years, with a production capacity of about 18 million devices a month, since the central government had announced a tax rationalisation for electronics products to boost local electronics manufacturing. The new manufacturing units h…