Reliance ‘JioFi’ dominates data card market: Report

New Delhi, May 16: Reliance Retail’s JioFi continued to dominate the data card segment with a market share of 73 per cent, followed by Huawei and Alcatel, in the first quarter of 2018, a report said on Wednesday.

Huawei and Alcatel collectively had a 24 per cent overall market share.

According to CyberMedia Research’s (CMR) report, Reliance Retail’s shipments declined 24 per cent when compared to the previous quarter while Huawei witnessed a nine per cent sequential growth in unit shipments due to the growth in shipments of its models — “E3372H-607” and “E5573Cs-609”.

Reliance Retail’s JioFi model “JMR541” captured the top spot with 49 per cent share in the data card market.

“With Q1, 2018 being the end of the financial year vendors were busy clearing the previous stock than focusing on the fresh imports. Also, Reliance Retail imported huge shipments in January which gradually decreased by the month of March for the same reason,” Shipra Sinha, Lead Analyst, CyberMedia Research, said in a statement. IANS