Record 87.9 mn mobile phones shipped to India in Oct-Dec: CMR

Indian market witnessed a record mobile phone shipment of 87.9 million units in OctoberDecember 2017, said a CyberMedia Research report.

“Mobile handset vendors shipped 88 million handset units in the fourth quarter of 2017. For the entire year, mobile handset vendors had shipped around 287 million handset units in India,” the CMR report said.

The estimates by the research firm showed Samsung remained the overall leader for 2017 with 21 per cent market share, followed by iTel and Xiaomi with 9 per cent market share each.

During the quarter, Reliance Jio’s LYF topped in the feature phone segment with 27 per cent share. It was followed by Samsung with (14 per cent), Micromax (9 per cent), iTel (8 per cent) and Lava (6 per cent).

Xiaomi led the smartphone segment with 25 per cent market share. It was followed by Samsung (21 per cent), Lenovo (9 per cent) and Vivo and Oppo (6 per cent).