The use of smartphones in the country is not growing too much. Recent import statistics say so. But the reality is that, those questions are related to those questions. In the legalized way in 2016, the country imported smartphones 80 lakh 44 thousand. In the year 2017 it was 80 lakh 99 thousand. As a result, the use of smartphones in the country increased by just 1.19 percent in one year.
However, compared to 2015, there was more than 37 percent of smartphone export growth in 2016. In 2013, 58 million 36 thousand smartphones were imported. In the last budget due to the increase in the tariff for the government to import smartphones, many people see illegal handset as a big reason. The importer has blamed the mobile phone operators. They say that the number of smartphones has not increased due to the absence of much improvement in the 3G network.
However, the import of bars or basic phones, but increased significantly, at a significant rate. According to the latest figures, last year, the total number of mobile phones or basic phones was 20 million 63 lakh 7 thousand pieces. These phones are mainly talking and nothing can be done except SMS.
A year ago, the amount of such phone imports was 25 million and 17 thousand pieces.
And in 2017 all of them have been imported in legitimate ways. In the year 2016, the number was 310 million and 22 thousand. Importers claim, in the budget of the current year, there has been a negative impact on the tariff increase on handsets, in legitimate import. They believe that 20 percent of the handsets used to come from illegal means, now it has gone up to at least 30 percent. For this reason, the imports in the legitimate way are quite small. They also think that floods have had
negative effects in the middle of last year.