Domestic brands capture 1/3rd of handset mart

This is against a combined share of 0.9 per cent from five new vendors in the January-March 2008 quarter, according to IDC India’s Quarterly Mobile Handsets Tracker 2Q 2010.

The total shipment of mobile handsets in India grew by 6.3 per cent quarter-on-quarter (2Q 2010 over 1Q 2010) to touch an all time high of 38.63 million units in a single quarter, it said.

Nokia held about 36 per cent share in the Indian handset market for the quarter ended June 2010. The Finnish firm held 54.1 per cent of the total market in the calender year 2009.