India over takes US as Nokia’s Second Largest Market

World’s largest cellphone manufacture, Nokia, has revealed that India has overtaken United States as the second largest handset market after China.

Nokia had expected India to overtake US as second largest market after China by 2010, but thanks to falling call rates which further boosted handset sales and made this milestone arrive by 2007. Out of 185 million mobile phone users in India, 85 million use Nokia phones.

When Nokia started its operation here in India, they just had 250 employees. And now the number has grown over 9000. 18 months back, they launched a manufacturing unit in Chennai which shipped more than 60 million handsets to over 58 countries. Impressive achievement by Nokia!

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