India's smartphone giant eyes China role reversal


A worker displays a Micromax mobile phone inside a store in Kolkata December 4, 2013. REUTERS/Rupak De Chowdhuri/Files

HONG KONG: India's home-grown mobile phone giant is looking east. 

Micromax Informatics has successfully seen off Chinese rivals on its home turf, which is now being hailed as the world's most important smartphone market. But to realise its lofty ambition to be a top five global handset maker by 2020 the Gurgaon-based company will also need to sell in China. 

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