Iran Mobile Phone Imports
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September 11,2022Some cellphone buyers could not register their devices via the system named Hamta, which caused problems for both buyers and sellers. Recently, Hamta notifications faced wide-scale disruptions,... -
July 15,2022Phones and smartphone imports decreased in the first quarter of the current fiscal year (March 21-June 21), according to the deputy head of the Islamic Republic of Iran Customs Administration. The...
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May 13,2022The prices of smartphones continue to rise after a 15% increase in the first month of the current fiscal year (March 21-April 20) compared to the previous month (Feb. 20-March 20). Market players...
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January 30,2022Premium cellphones worth $940 million and costing over $600 apiece were imported during the current fiscal year’s first nine months (March 21-Dec. 21, 2021), according to the spokesman of the...
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January 28,2022The import of 27 smartphone models produced by Xiaomi, OnePlus, Realme and Nokia has been banned due to an inbuilt difficulty in contacting the country's emergency numbers. In a letter to the...
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January 04,2022A total of 13.06 million smartphones and cellphones worth $2.94 billion were imported in the current Iranian year’s first nine months (March 21-Dec. 21), registering a 42% and 117% growth in terms...
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September 27,2019Following the launch of the Mobile Registry Scheme in December 2017, its legal loopholes have allowed opportunists to continue smuggling mobile phones into Iran. The most recent violation surfaced...
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May 10,2019Another wave of price surge is expected in Iran’s smartphone market, as the government is set to revise its mobile phone import regulations. As per the Mobile Registry Scheme, local telecom...
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March 05,2019Following the latest government crackdown on illegal mobile phone imports, the price of handsets has shot up 20% in the market. “With declining supply, the price of handsets has increased 15-20%...
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February 12,2019Following the launch of the Mobile Registry Scheme in December 2017, close to 250,000 smuggled cellphones have been detected and disconnected from local operators’ networks by mid-June 2018. With...
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January 27,2019To help uphold consumer rights and some prodding from the Iran Information Technology Organization, Samsung has revised its smartphone warranty conditions. As is customary with the South Korean...
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January 13,2019In the last fiscal that ended in March 2018, Iran’s mobile phone market was worth 17.72 trillion rials. At that time the greenback on average fetched 40,450 rials, which means the local cellphone...
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September 14,2018During the first five months of the current fiscal which started in March, the total value of mobile phones imported into Iran has amounted to $239,790,594. According to data released by the...
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September 04,2018Iran’s Communication Regulatory Authority is poised to tap into the potential of the already operational Cellphone Registry Scheme to exert further control on the bullish mobile phone market, curb...
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August 26,2018In order to mitigate the raging inflation in the mobile phone market, authorities will distribute 650,000 handsets at moderate prices in the market this week. Thousands of mobile phone devices...
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August 10,2018Central Bank of Iran's new forex policy has helped calm various markets in Iran, including the tumultuous mobile phone market, as reports point to a drop in prices as much as 10%. The mobile phone...
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August 07,2018In a move aimed at soothing the disheveled Iranian mobile phone market, the government of President Hassan Rouhani has sped up the release of handsets from customs warehouses and in the coming days...
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July 31,2018The implementation of the Mobile Phone Registry Scheme, in line with e-governance policies, as well as a means to curb the smuggling of cellphones, has generated three times the previous amount in...
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July 22,2018Following the hike in the dollar exchange rate in Iran which has perturbed the public and driven commodity prices to unprecedented highs, some mobile importers have turned to profiteering to make...
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June 26,2018During the recent weeks, the prices of mobile phones have gone on a bullish run in Iran’s technology market. The exorbitantly high prices have enraged buyers and disrupted business. In order to...
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June 22,2018Iran’s cellphone imports bill for the first two months of the current fiscal which started on March 21 has been released with the total value of the handsets entering Iran standing at $109 million...
