Indian mobile handset market was worth Rs 8,805 crore (Rs 88.05 billion) in 2004-05 out of which share of GSM handset was 84 per cent at Rs 7,384 crore (Rs 73.84 billion) with Nokia capturing a sizable chunk of marketshare at 62.3 per cent.

According to a report by Cellular Operators Association of India quoting a Voice & Data report of June 2005, the share of GSM handsets was even higher than the GSM connections which stood at 75 per cent for the same period.

The report claimed that CDMA handsets accounted for 16 per cent of marketshare at Rs 1,421 crore (Rs 14.21 billion).

In the of GSM space, Samsung was way behind Nokia with 11.3 per cenr marketshare followed by Motorola at 9.2 per cent and Sony Ericsson at 4 per cent while LG had a marketshare of 2 per cent.

Other brands like Sagem, Alcatel, BenQ, Bird, Siemens, Philips, Blackberry, Krome, HP, Palm, Kejian cornered 10.3 per cent marketshare in 2004-05, claimed the COAI report. In the CDMA handset space, LG was the undisputed leader with a marketshare of 59.1 per cent followed by Nokia at 17.6 per cent, Samsung at 6.3 per cent, Motorola at 5.3 per cent, Kyocera at 5.2 per cent and others like Hyundai and ZTE at 6.5 per cent.