India is moving to block millions of cheap copy-cat Chinese mobile phones and accessories from flooding the market that the handset industry describes as “time bombs” for their often dangerously poor quality.
“You have many of these phones behaving like little bombs – just exploding because the battery is bad,” said Pankaj Mohindroo, national president of the Indian Cellular Association, the lobby group representing Nokia and other large handset makers in the country.
The ICA estimates that of the 4m-5m handsets imported each month from China, up to one third, or 1m-1.5m are cheap replicas produced by small shops in southern China.
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