Gurgaon, Bhopal, Jaipur fastest growing smartphone markets in India: IDC

Delhi and Mumbai contributing one-fourth of the total sales in top 50 Indian cities

Gurgaon, Bhopal and Jaipur have emerged as the fastest-growing Tier-II cities in terms of smartphone sales, according to the International Data Corporation's (IDC) monthly city-level smartphone tracker report.

Each of these Tier-II cities showed growth of more than 40 per cent when compared with data from the previous quarter . However, Tier-I cities continue to be the key volume driver for the Indian smartphone market, with 29 per cent sequential growth in the September quarter of 2017. Delhi and Mumbai contributed one-fourth of the total sales in top 50 cities in India.

The availability of inexpensive smartphones and affordable 4G