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Vivo-Oppo should merge to create a strong No 2 in the Smartphone segment across India

In Gujarat and Tamil Nadu, the merged entity, ViPo would become #1 and in Maharashtra, Punjab and Gujarat, it would have market share above the respective adjusted #1 player in these states.   In a recent viewpoint we had suggested few meaningful mergers and acquisitions for the

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Samsung lost to Xiaomi in the largest Smartphone market in India – Mobilytiks

In 4Q 2017 (OND), Xiaomi led sales in Maharashtra which contributes 14% to the Smartphone sales in India Xiaomi displacing the longstanding Smartphone leader Samsung in the OND quarter of 2017 is no new revelation.  However, where exactly Xiaomi hit the market leader needs to be

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Implications of 13-digit M2M numbering plan for Telecommunications in India

Estimated 5 million existing subscribers could actually get counted as M2M subscribers in India as profiling of subscribers and use cases is accomplished With a BSNL notification to its vendors circulating across social networking, the momentum around implementation of 13-digit numbering approved for M2M devices is

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With little impetus for Telecom in Budget 2018, little can it contribute to Digital India

The budget 2018 proposal tabled by the finance minister, Arun Jaitely, has nothing concrete to propose that could destress the telecom sector.  Though, in the long range, initiatives like setting up of test bed by DoT along with IIT Chennai for 5G technology indigenisation and Niti

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Domestic brands have to dial South if they want to remain in Smartphone business – Mobilytiks

CMR’s Mobilytiks has always been throwing up some of the interesting prescriptive insights that actually tells the CXO community what to do next rather than complicating their decision making by landing in a soup of options. In our recent conversations with the CXO leadership of Indian

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Is Apple really doing badly in India?

Given the current market conditions in India for smartphones, it appears that Steve Jobs, the late Apple co-founder, was prophetic: He did not consider this country a significant opportunity. Let’s take a look at the Apple story since its entry into India in 2008. A lot

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Are incumbents back into the game? An early warning indicator for Jio

The October numbers released by TRAI do not have good news for Jio – the disruptor operator.  Jio has increased 24% subscribers in October 2017 compared to September 2017, while the overall mobile broadband subscribers added during the period saw an increase of 81%.  This means

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Eight Smartphone Predictions for 2018  

2017 will be remembered as the year when the smartphone innovation hit a plateau. This is the year when the lines got increasingly blurred when it came to comparing smartphone brands on specs and hardware, across price bands. Smartphone vendors also realized the futility in driving

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Flipkart’s Billion Capture Plus: A Good Headstart but Long Road Ahead

Flipkart launched its own smartphone brand, the Billion Capture+ this week in one of the most crowded smartphone segments in the most selling price band INR 10K-15K category, competing against the likes of RedMi from Xiaomi and MotoG from Motorola, and catering to the online buyers.

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