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Over 15.8 million LTE devices shipped in 1Q 2016 in India: Study

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Sanjeeb Kumar Sahoo
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NEW DELHI: Over 15.8 million 4G devices were shipped in the first quarter of 2016, according to the CMR’s 1Q CY report of India LTE Devices.

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"Of these, 97.9% were Smartphones followed by DataCards at 1.5% and the remaining 0.6% were Tablet PCs. This amounts to 63% of the cellular devices shipped through the quarter," a report said.

Faisal Kawoosa, Lead Analyst for Telecoms at CMR , said, “The Smartphone industry was the first to bank upon the 4G wave. Now as the services go live with multiple operators, it is the time for other devices to ride on the growth path.”

“DataCards have already started showing this trend as in the first quarter of 2016, itself, we saw 0.5% increase in its contribution to the overall LTE devices compared to 1% of CY 2015. We see this strengthening more as the year progresses. However, tablets are lagging behind and they need to ramp up at the earliest,” Faisal added.

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The overall devices leadership is skewed towards the leadership rankings in the 4G Smartphones as close to 98% of the LTE devices are Smartphones. In the Mobile phones, Samsung, Lenovo and LYF are the three leaders with 32%, 14% and 13% market shares respectively. In Tablets, Samsung, Apple and iBall are the three leading brands with 58%, 16% and 12% market shares.

However, within DataCards, Huawei, ZTE and Micromax were the only three players shipping 4G devices in the 1Q of 2016. There shares were 40%, 31% and 29%, respectively.

CMR analyst for Telecoms, Krishna Mukherjee , commenting on the 4G brands in India said, “While every emerging devices brand in India prefers Smartphones for obvious potential growth reasons, we see number of brands sh

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