About India

Mobile Phones are not just limited to the metro cities of India but have also reached the rural, far flung, tier II and tier III cities in India. It is not unusual to find the maid or the watchman carrying one. India too is becoming gadget friendly and why not you find various sites developed by tech friendly people which give ample information on mobile phones. Not only this you can compare prices of various mobile phones online and book one for yourself. Apart from all this mobile phones is a necessity today and no more has remained a luxury as it was a few years back.

Installing of mobile phone networks is cost effective and has great flexibility this is one of the reasons why mobile phones are becoming major mode of communication in India. But with this telecom operators have enhanced responsibility of improving their customer care centers, quality of networks, in case an operator has a tie up with other operator then to check if network is available to the customers. In India both GSM and CDMA services are provided in the mobile phones. There are some new set of phones in which both the services can be enjoyed. Code Division Multiple Access or simply CDMA is becoming popular in India. CDMA mobiles offer a wide network charging minimally also the service provider is fixed. The best CDMA service providers in India are BSNL, MTNL, TATA Indicom and Reliance. CDMA mobile phones are less expensive compared to the GSM mobile phones. But if you are an extensive traveler or a person who replaces mobiles quite often then you should go in for a GSM mobile phone. You will find Nokia and Motorola mobile phones equipped with GSM. BSNL’s both prepaid and postpaid services are less expensive when compared with other GSM service operators the next best being Airtel. In CDMA mobile phones Reliance is doing the rounds.

As such many mobile handset companies are plying in Indian markets and with India being the potential hub more and more companies are entering the Indian shores. To name a few one will find the popular brands like Nokia, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, Onida enjoying the attention. But brands like Blacberry, Micromax, Inq are also not far behind. So there is a mobile phone for everyone in India.

Take a walk down an Indian street and you will find the local vendor, the street hawker, and even the fish seller owning a mobile. So huge has the mobile industry gotten that it has consumed more than 20 million Indian citizens.

How did this fancy of a mobile phone turn into a rage? Instant communication, get work done, pass messages, save time, make money are a few of the advantages that you inherit with a mobile phone. So who would not want that, that too in an industrial town like Mumbai where everyone is out to make some money?

So with every second person opting to buy a mobile phone the industry has grown gargantuan. In 2005 thirty million handsets had been sold in 2006 it crossed 69.3 million so you can imagine the growth rate of India’s mobile phone industry.

So what are the mobile phones in India that people are going crazy over. Leading the market share is Nokia, the mobile phone from Finland, its service and utility keeps going on and on giving you true value for your money. Here the range begins from Rs. 1000 to Rs. 30000 and even Rs. 40000 for those who need high end features.

There are phones that cater only for music, so you can load your phone with MP3 songs, wave or any other music format. The N series in Nokia is music oriented. But if you are a business person and look for business oriented features like working in word, PDF etc. then the E series cater to these needs. Competition in the industry includes Samsung, Sony Eriksson, Siemens, Reliance etc.

The mobile market is also growing in terms of ring tones. These are sounds that you can imbibe in your phone as caller tunes or phone ringer. Caller tunes mean when a call comes in, instead of the standard tring tring you can hear a song that has been selected by the owner and programmed in his phone. Phone ringers are the sounds the receiver can hear when a call comes in. He can change the ringer of each and every person on his contact list. However the service for caller tunes is charged and that of the phone ringer is not.

Indian ring tones are mostly bollywood latest tracks or English chart toppers. And ofcourse for those that are religious oriented they can even opt for bhajans as their caller tune. In other words the mobile industry caters to individual needs and preferences.