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India Budget 2010 : Mobile Phones and Accessories to get cheaper

on February 26, 2010 – 3:40 pm7 Comments

The Finance Minister of India just presented the Union Budget for 2010-2011 and some good news on the mobile  front.  Mobile phones and accessories are bound to get cheaper.

To encourage the domestic manufacture of mobile phones accessories, exemptions from basic, CVD and special additional duties are now being extended to parts of battery chargers and hands-free headphones. The validity of the exemption from special additional duty is being extended till March 31, 2011.

Looks like the Government wants to encourage domestic manufacturing of cellphones and accessories.

3G will soon become a reality and government expects to raise around Rs.36000 crore from 3G auctions which are starting soon.

But sadly there is no change in VAT on mobile phones which is pretty high in stats like Maharashtra.

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  • Kasi

    This is a very encouraging move by the Govt. especially for the domestic players.
    Fonearena, a small request. Can you please find out (or may be run an article on) how many mobile-phone manufacturers are there from India. I see a lot of them surface in the last few years but don’t have the complete list.

    Thanks,
    @vkvraju

  • Sam

    Hi Kasi
    There is a website where you can get complete list of Telcom service providers and manufacturers of mobile handset up to date as on date also whether they are live in network or just planned to set up the network.
    The website address is here
    http://www.gsmworld.com/roaming/gsminfo/cou_in.shtml
    Hope the information is useful to you as you desired.
    Sam

  • Ruatfela darlong

    A positive step taken by the govt. Thanks. Now, people can afford to buy cellphones at cheaper price, manufactured by domestic cellphone companies…, , whose quality are at par with nokia, sony ericsson, motorola, samsung mobile phones… ;)

  • Subhrajit

    From when we can get the mobile phone price as published current Budget 2010.Please tell me details.

  • http://www.themobileaccessories.com Mobile Phone Accessories

    very useful . Thanks for this information

  • http://www.monishshaikh.webs.com MONISH SHAIKH

    anybody know whats the current Budget of 2010.Please tell me details.

  • http://www.2011taxcalculatorus.com Rani

    The extension of banking and interest facilities for real estate and housing sector is a step in the right direction. This is the main face up to for all commercial real estate franchise India developers. Promotion has traditionally been focused on shotgun looms that generate few qualified leads.