Wednesday, December 27, 2006

Nokia rules Indian GSM

The annual TNS CellTrack 2006 study, which covered around 3,000 Indian mobile users and 1,057 multi-brand retail outlets across 17 telecom circles, found that Nokia’s rule of GSM markets is overwhelming.

Nokia, retained top spot in the Indian GSM market with 79 percent market share, while Motorola more than doubled its share to seven percent in 2006. Motorola’s gain was Samsung’s loss for the latter’s GSM market share dropped from 6 percent in 2005 to 4 percent in 2006.

Meanwhile in the CDMA market, Nokia again managed to retain its share, while Samsung lost market share from 17 percent to 8 percent, and Motorola too lost market share from 12 percent to 4 percent.LG had 49 percent of the CDMA market vis-à-vis 43 percent in 2005.

Source: mobilemonday