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Iran's mobile phone market shrinks
Aug 10, 2009 09:20The worldwide mobile phone market recorded another quarter of year-over-year decline in the second quarter of 2009 (2Q09) and current trends in Iran show a similar situation. Mobile phone prices have been decreasing since some months ago, and people are still looking for lower prices.
Unofficial sources say that over 1 million mobile phones are sold in Iran every month and this number belongs to just people who change their mobile phone not for those who happen to have their first mobile phone.
Worldwide trends encourage mobile manufacturers to invest on smartphones with multimedia messaging, high-speed Internet services, and Internet-related applications. Mobile phones are tightly integrated with Skype, Flickr, Twitter, and YouTube applications, while I see different trends in the Iran market. There are many factors that differentiate Iran from other countries. Laws and policies for importers, limited GPRS-based Internet services by mobile operators, lack of multimedia messaging and 3G mobile services, and differences in sales and distribution channels. All of these factors makes Iran a special market with different behaviors.
Mobile phone market analysis shows that Iranians are mostly attracted to mobile phones with good sound and camera capabilities than phones with Internet or multimedia messaging.
For those of you who are interested to know which handsets are bestsellers in Iran, I have to say the Nokia 6300, Sony Ericsson Cyber-shot C905, Samsung M8800 and LG Shine are among the hot sellers in high-end mobile phones. The Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, Sony Ericsson Walkman series including the W980 and W595 (mostly bought by girls), also the K850, K770 and Samsung F480 are selling well, according to market studies.
The Nokia N97 doesn't enjoy that kind of success with an entry price of around US$800, Its price has fallen by US$170 in three months. The Nokia 5800 XpressMusic is one of the top sellers and its price has dropped to around US$100 to US$290 since five months back.
Most of mobile phones sold in Iran are under US$300 and this price limit is reducing because of lower market demand. Nokia is going to bring in more cheaper phones under US$100. The Nokia 1200, 1203, 1208, 1209, 3110, 3120 are still among the bestselling low-priced phones.
Samsung is growing in a shrinking market and took 23 percent of the market share recently by offering new touchscreen mobiles at reasonable prices. Sony Ericsson is said to be losing its market share to Samsung and LG.
Apple iPhone has a small market in Iran, although it has a bigger profit margin for sellers.
More to come
Reza
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WOW....
I dont think mobile phone market shrinks...
Aug 13, 2009 11:15
It's surprising to here of any country's cell market shrinking. Good overview Reza. Also, it seems cell phones are becoming more like computers in some ways.
Speaking of cell phones and the like, I recently found out there’s a way for the average guy (or gal) to profit from that market in an interesting and unusual way. He also has an interesting graph on cell VS Internet usage.
Learning about it was for me, a fascinating mix of the computer/cell phone world. Some say it’s like turning your cell phone into an ATM- and though that may be a bit strong, there does seem to be serious opportunity in it.
Here’s the link- 93919g35flzksht9eiohm2y4sk.hop.cl ickbank.net
Sep 02, 2009 04:03
Yeah Limited Services Provided By Operators In Iran Really Affected On Mobile Phones . For Example I Prefer To Buy A Mp3 Player & A Compact Digicam & A Simple Mobile Phone .(Many Functions Of Phones Such As Iphone Dont Works In Iran ) Very Glad To See 1 Iranian Here . I Joind About 5 Months Ago And Wished See Iranians Here And I Found U .
Sep 19, 2009 00:26
Hi, great blog and article. I love mobile phone, i have bought very expensive it.countrysearch.tradekey.com... rel="dofollow">Italian Mobile Phones but it's damaged in a car accident. i have no idea about that Iran's Mobile market but all over the world people wants to buy newest model of mobile phones.
Nov 11, 2009 18:08
@adam001 : Some Month Ago Happened This To Iran`s Mobile Phone Market .
Here In Iran Like Another Countries , People Like To Buy Newest Mobile Phone & Now Mobile Phone Market Go To Normalize .
Nov 12, 2009 03:54
About Reza Hashemi
Reza Hashemi is a Web entrepreneur.He has an engineering degree in computer hardware and a Master in computer systems and networks architecture. He has experienced a condensed history of computers, operating systems and dot com generations. In his younger days, he mastered the art of playing computer games and programming for Commodore 64 then IBM 370 mainframes with card readers in university and hooked up to the Internet via a 19.6Kbps shared connection in 1993. He is also a university instructor, IT consultant and founder/CEO/board member of a couple of e-businesses since Y2K.
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