After China, India's is the fastest growing market for mobile phones in Asia. It is the place where the performance of the older GSM and newer CDMA segments are are being looked at closely, as an indicator of their respective futures.

Besides, all the leading players in handsets are hard at work in India, and their fortunes here will, at least in some part, determine their global market shares.

Can India become a center for mobile phone manufacture? The country has been a great success at attracting software and IT enabled services companies from all over the globe. It is becoming the world's back-office and call center capital. But its ability to attract manufacturing is suspect, and East Asian countries have outclassed it so far as a manufacturing location.

Still, it has one trump card here: its fast growing domestic market. Will handset manufacturers find this sufficient to locate their handset assembly plants in India? And what is the Government doing to push forward the concept of India as a manufacturing location?

This report looks at past, present and future trends in the market for mobile handsets - GSM and CDMA - in India. It examines the performance of players in the handset market, and analyses issues and plans connected with locating handset production in India. The report's contents:

• Introduction
• Cellular and limited mobility industry trends
• GSM and CDMA handset market/demand in india: trends and future
• Market shares and positioning of major handset vendors
• Global handset manufacturing developments
• GSM and CDMA handset manufacture in india: issues and prospects

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