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PTI The government wants iPhone maker Apple to consider a new manufacturing scheme offering duty benefits to set up its plants in the country. "Apple had asked for a set of concessions. For a period of 15 years all the components that Apple imports, they want them to be free of duty. We have a phased manufacturing programme (PMP) because we want more and more value addition to come to the country. We want them to understand how this PMP will work and how they can dove tail into that," Ministry of Electronics and IT Secretary Aruna Sundararajan told reporters on Saturday. She was speaking on the sidelines of the annual session of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII). ...

The Dollar Business Bureau Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ‘Make in India’ initiative seems to have had a positive impact on the mobile handset manufacturing in the country.  According to the latest data released by the Cyber Media Research (CMR), "out of the total handsets shipped during April-June 2015, 24.8% were manufactured and/or assembled in India compared to 19.9% in the previous quarter."  The CMR’s India Mobile Handsets Market Review report also stated that the smartphones were on way to account for half of all mobile phones shipped in India, currently adding up to 43% of total mobile phone shipments in the country.  "India shipped 56.6 million handsets during the April-June this year with 43% of them being smartphones. During April-June 2015, smartphones ...

 The Dollar Business Bureau Increasing use of smartphones and high-speed wireless internet has propelled the sales of 4G devices in Indian markets. According to a market research, sales of 4G-enabled devices that support high-speed data transfer have increased by whopping 108% between January and March this year. Analysts attribute the upward sales to the rising demand of data card and smartphones across the country. The two segments have witnessed an increase of 287% and 111% respectively during this period, said the quarterly report released by CyberMedia Research (CMR). While the total 4G device shipments in the country reached 2.2 million units during January-March 2015, smartphones dominated the market contributing 97% of the devices sold. And, experts predict the trend ...