Alcatel aims to clock $10 million revenue from tablet PC segment

Chinese smartphone manufacturer company, Alcatel aims at $10 million revenue from its portfolio of tablet PCs and hopes to capture 10 per cent market share by the end of this year.

Praveen Valecha, Regional Director, Alcatel India told PTI, "Tablet is a fairly new category for us. While we had products in the international market, we have just started expanding into the Indian market. We hope to exit 2017 with 10 per cent market share."

According to research firm, CMR, sales of tablet PCs in India declined 16 per cent year-on-year to around 7.6 lakh units in the January-March 2017 quarter.

Compared to the previous October-December quarter, it was lower by 6 per cent.

Datawind continued to hold the top spot with 34 per cent market share, followed by iBall with 16 per cent share, the report said. Samsung had 15 per cent share, while homegrown Micromax had 8 per cent share.

Globally too, tablet PC sales have been declining (8.5 per cent in March quarter to 36.2 million units) given higher consumer preference for smartphones.

Valecha said, "The tablet PC market has shrunk mainly because there were no major devices in the Indian market. Also, many low- value tabs spoilt customer experience. Besides, there were factors like demonetisation and GST. But, we expect the market to revive by Diwali."

He added, "The company will also launch two more devices in the Indian market to cash in on the category."