Apple will partner with Bharti Airtel, India's second-largest telecom operator, to offer Apple TV+ and Apple Music for free to Airtel's premium customers. This strategic move gives Apple access to a vast pool of potential users in the world's most populous country, where it currently has a small presence in...
India Cuts Import Duty on Mobile Phones
India has announced a reduction in import duty on mobile phones and key components from 20% to 15%, a move that will benefit smartphone manufacturers. This decision, presented by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in the Fiscal 2025 annual budget, aims to serve consumer interests by lowering taxes on mobile phones,...
Smart Phone Sales Continue to Rise
Smartphone suppliers in India shipped 46.6 million units in the most recent quarter, an increase of 9.3 percent from the previous quarter. The average selling price is much lower than in the West, just $159 and top brands are all Asian companies, Xiaomi, Samsung, Vivo, Realme and Oppo. However. the iPhone...
90% of Foxconn's Sri City Plant in India Are Women
At Foxconn Technology Group’s mobile phone plant in Sri City, in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh, of the nearly 15,000 workers 90% are women who assemble phones for various manufacturers, including Xiaomi. Recently, workers began testing and assembling Apple’s iPhone X, which will be sold in India first and eventually...
Foxconn Moves Production of iPhones to India
Terry Gou, chairman of Foxconn Technology Group said that his company will mass produce iPhones in India this year. "In the future we will play a very important role in India’s smartphone industry," he said at an event in Taiwan. "We have moved our production lines there." India is now...
Apple Reduces iPhone XR Prices in India
To boost sales in the face of stiff competition in the premium smartphone segment in India, where it stands at third position, Apple lowered the selling price of its latest iPhone XR by up to 22 percent. Phone Model Current Price Previous Price XR 64 GB $867 $1,113...