{"id":9316,"date":"2009-08-24T13:05:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-24T11:05:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-08-24T13:05:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-24T11:05:00","slug":"nokia-low-cost-handsets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/9316-nokia-low-cost-handsets.html","title":{"rendered":"Nokia low-cost handsets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;India is our second-largest market. We aim to remove the affordability barrier,&#8221; chief executive and president Olli-Pekka Kallsvuo told reporters, without specifying the planned price level.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We need to make mobility more accessible in India,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>The company already has more than half the share of India&#8217;s mobile handset market, analysts say.<\/p>\n<p>The country is the world&#8217;s fastest-growing mobile market measured by new subscriber additions and analysts say the government&#8217;s target of 500 million mobile phone users by next year could be reached ahead of schedule.<\/p>\n<p>Official data released in June showed the number of mobile subscribers in India above 400 million for the first time, with more than 10 million new subscribers added per month.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=188373\">Low cost Nokia handset<\/a> discussion<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The head of Nokia, the world&#039;s largest maker of mobile phones, said that the Finnish company aims to expand in India by offering lower-cost handsets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cellular"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9316"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}