Tag: mobile phones

Last year, India had already managed to produce an estimated 100 million of the devices.

India has started to define itself as a worldwide hub for the production of mobile phones and, as such, it is now lining itself up to reach the tremendous milestone of 500 million units within the next two years.

The Department of Telecom (DoT) announced that this growth is spiking due to very specific reasons.

A statement from the DoT said that the production of mobile phones has been able to grow at this considerable rate due to a solid incentive policy as well as having quality talent readily available. J.S. Deepak, the Telecom Secretary, explained that “The number of phones being manufactured was 10 million sometime back (now it has increased) to 100 million. The time has come when we will reach 500 million, may be in 2 years.”

Deepak pointed out that a differential tariff was assisting domestic manufacturers in the mobile phones market.

That said, while speaking on ART (Adjudication, Regulation, Telecommunication) of Convergence at a TDSAT seminar, he also shared that the differential tariff was also helpful to areas other than mobile technology, such as in consumer electronics, medical electronics, in addition to broadband set-up boxes and equipment.

Deepak added that with the incentive policies and the strong talent base, the country has started to define itself in the worldwide market for the manufacture of mobile devices, particularly in the area of lower-end cell phones.

This is one of several efforts being made by the Indian government in the hope of decreasing electronic product imports in order to be able to meet domestic market product requirements by creating its own solid structure of production.

In response to this move in India, a number of different large electronic device makers have started to step into the country. Among those companies have included Lenovo, Micromax, Gionee, Lava, Xiaomi, and OnePlus. This has allowed India to define itself among the most rapidly growing mobile phone markets on the planet. It is not surprising that this is presenting a considerable appeal to device makers from the rest of the globe.

The massive online marketplace has informed buyers in the country that they won’t accept smartphone returns.

Amazon India has now released a statement to shoppers in India to let them know that if they buy mobile phones over the online marketplace and that is not an order fulfilled by the company, itself, then the devices are not returnable.

Feature and smartphones purchased in orders fulfilled by Amazon, itself, will still be covered by the return policy.

When orders are not filled by Amazon, buyers will only be able to have the product replaced in the case that it arrived in defective or damaged condition during transit. That said, the “no longer needed” option will not be available on those purchases any longer. The option for replacement of the product will be available to buyers for a span of 10 days after it was delivered.

The new regulation regarding the withdrawal of the return of mobile phones became effective on February 7.

It was becoming quite well known that the return policy was being abused in India when it came to mobile devices. This was becoming a regular issue from which both Amazon India and the website’s massive seller community, were suffering. It was reaching the point that it was commonplace for buyers to purchase the latest mobile technology, use it for a few days and then return it.

The returns were being made regardless of the fact that there was nothing wrong with the device. This was causing Amazon India to have to take on the cost of the additional shipping of the perfectly functional smartphones. At the same time, the sellers of the mobile devices were finding themselves having to return the purchase price and deal with the returned merchandise.

The situation for sellers through Amazon India is not the same as that in the United States. In the U.S., a restocking fee is sometimes charged to the buyer when an item is returned for reasons other than damage or defectiveness. Without these additional levels of deterrent, the system was being abused, particularly in the case of the purchase of mobile phones.