Nokia Predicts, India will Have Half a Billion Mobile Phone Users by 2010

India is one of the emerging mobile phone markets in the world. Recently, mobile phone giant Nokia estimated the country would have half a billion cell phone by 2010. No doubt, mobile phone market in India experienced a huge growth over the last few years and with reducing the price of phone set and call rate, the number of mobile users has been increasing significantly in India. Vice president and managing director of Nokia India, D Shivakumar said that 250 million users would use internet though mobile phone in India by the same period of time. Mr. Shivakumar also categorized the mobile phones used in India into three categories: high end, middle end and low end phones.

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He added that the market would be divided into three categories: the top-end market segment would be limited to 50 million customers; the middle-end phone range would have 150 million customers while the remaining 300 million users would be using low-end devices. He said that the last-named category is ''unique to India'', and will be ''dominated by low-cost basic handsets with minimal functionality.''

India is now the fastest growing mobile phone market in the world with 6 millions new users being added every month. At this moment, there are 250 million mobile phone users in the country. However, users are not yet confirmed if the existing technologies will be developed for better service in the country.