Conference Panel: Selling to the Indian Consumer

Amazing insights from consumer electronics and retail consulting. A consumer electronics company was focusing on the top 30 cities, despite indicates that the rural market had as much disposable income as the urban market. This raised a couple of questions from me during the panel.

What kind of innovations in distribution do we see in India in the next 5 years?

What do you think?

Can the Consumer Electronics companies contribute to more active usage of the cellphone screen? This query had an interesting response and an unexpected fact component- India uses only about a third of the spectrum that the US currently uses.

Does the Indian cellphone consumer need an industry association comprising of consumer electronics companies, software companies, infrastructure companies and investors to encourage more active usage of the cellphone screen?

What do you think?

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