Ten years ago, only 12 out of 100 people in India had phone connections. Since then the Indian telecom market has leapfrogged achieving a teledensity of 80% now, and active smartphone subscribers crossing 220 million. One of the main factors for Indian telecom
revolution can be mapped to the availability of technologies to indigenous low cost smartphone manufacturers. The dichotomy in the Indian telecom industry is that despite the huge revenue potential due to the growing number of subscribers and penetration of mobile
technologies in rural area, the propensity to innovate in mobile communication technologies is abysmally low.