Iran-Israel War: Mobile phone-computer market shocked by Iran crisis, memory-chipset supply affected
Delhi. Due to the West Asia crisis, the supply chain of memory and chipsets is getting affected and if the war continues for a long time, the prices of mobile phones, computers and every device in which they are used may increase. Vibha Mehra, manager of Nokia India in India, said in response to questions from reporters after releasing a report on Tuesday that the supply of memory and chipsets, among other things, is being affected due to the war.
There is no problem with the supply of devices as of now, as there is sufficient inventory available, but if the war continues, the impact will be visible in the medium term (six months to two years). He said that at present the prices of memory and chipset have started increasing. Some people have started storing them and have increased the prices. In such a situation, if not immediately, then its effect will definitely be visible in some time to come.
Releasing the India Mobile Broadband Index 2026, Mehra said that data consumption is increasing rapidly in India. The total data traffic, increasing at an average rate of 21.7 percent in the last five years, will reach 27.6 exabytes monthly by the year 2025. Whereas the average monthly data consumption per user stood at 31.1 GB last year with an average growth of 18.2 percent.
He said that 5G Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) was the biggest contributor to this growth. Its share in total 5G data consumption was more than 25 percent. FWA users consumed 10 times the data compared to mobile data users. The number of 5G FWA users has doubled year on year. Mrs. Mehra said that a major change is being seen in the change in the ratio of uploads and downloads.
Uploads are increasing rapidly. For this, telecom companies will have to make changes in their spectrum allocation. Along with this, they will also have to work on those technologies including devices which can make data upload more easy. He said that currently on an average 90 percent spectrum is being used for download and 10 percent for upload. This allocation has been made based on the traditional usage patterns of the users.
However, they will have to increase the upload speed to match the changing patterns, but without compromising on downloads. The report says that at the end of 2025, there are a total of 892 million active 4G devices in the country, out of which 383 million are capable of 5G, that is, 5G facility can be available on them if the network is available. Nine out of every 10 smartphones sold in the country were 5G.
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