Samsung takes 25.1% market share in India, which saw total smartphone shipments of 27.5M units in Q2
Smartphone shipments in India totaled 27.5 million units in the second quarter of 2016, up 3.7% year-on-year, according to a recent study by tech consultancy IDC. Compared to the previous quarter, smartphone shipments in the Indian market grew 17.1%
Both global and Indian vendor shipments declined year-on-year in the second quarter, while China-based vendor shipments grew 75% year-over-year in Q2. “China-based vendors’ shipments grew 28% over the previous quarter of which Lenovo group, Vivo, Xiaomi, OPPO and Gionee were key contributors driving the growth,” IDC’s senior analyst Karthik J, said. “Until now, Lenovo was the only China-based vendor to ship over a million units in a quarter, while this quarter saw an additional three vendors joining the million shipments bandwagon.”
Korean electronics manufacturer Samsung continued to lead the Indian smartphone market with a 25.1% share, registering 10.9% sequential growth over the previous quarter and 15% growth from the same period last year.
Local firm Micromax retained second place with 19.9% growth over the previous quarter in terms of smartphone shipments. Micromax had a 12.9% share in the local smartphone market in Q2.
Lenovo Group (including Motorola) regained the third position in the Indian smartphone market, with 10.3% growth over the last quarter. In terms of smartphone shipments, the Chinese firm had a market share of 7.7% in Q2.
Other key vendors in the local market include Intex and Reliance Jio.
China Telecom’s H1 profits grow 6.3% year-over-year; 4G subscribers total 90.1M at the end of June
In other APAC news, Chinese carrier China Telecom recorded revenue of 11.7 billion yuan ($1.76 billion) in the first half of the year, climbing 6.3% year-on-year.
The telco’s operating revenue in the first half increased 7.2% to 177 billion yuan, while mobile voice revenue declined 8.2% to 22.8 billion yuan.
The carrier ended June with 90.1 million subscribers in the 4G LTE segment, which represents 40% of China Telecom’s overall mobile user base, up from 15% a year ago and 30% last December.
China Telecom said it has added 31.6 million 4G customers in the first half of 2016. The telco aims to install 340,000 4G base stations this year, taking its total to 850,000.
