The development comes a week later after India’s second largest mobile services company Reliance Communications Ltd., launched a $ 286 7-inch Android tablet to take advantage of the expected demand for low cost computing devices in the world’s fastest growing and second largest mobile phone market.
The tablet will allow consumers to make calls from any SIM card, regardless of service provider, which can be a big draw for consumers to choose a tablet via mobile phone. “The tablet is the SIM card-agnostic.
We are open to tie-up with other providers,” company President and Chief Executive Officer Vinod Sawhny said after revealing a total offer of Airtel.
Phone services companies such as Bharti Airtel Ltd. – India’s largest mobile phone company by users – Reliance Communications and Idea Cellular Ltd. expects increased use of computers to help increase sales and margins in a market where fierce competition has kept the call rates of less than one U.S. cent per minute.
Telecommunications and Internet service providers paid more than $ 22.7 billion for the Indian government in 2010 for the bandwidth to provide 3G telephony and broadband wireless internet.
10. August launched Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. a 10.1-inch and 8.9-inch tablets in India for $ 799 and $ 750 respectively. Apple Inc. sold its iPad 2 in India at prices starting at $ 499 for 16 gigabytes WiFi-only device, while Research In Motion Ltd. is selling its 7-inch Playbook in India for $ 617
Nearly 1.5 crore mobile phones are sold in India every month, about 10 percent of them are smart phones.
“Sales of smart phones is gradually increasing, and it will have an impact on the sale of tablets as well,” Mr. Sawhny added.
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