Iran Mobile Phone Imports

Some 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…

Phones 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 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…

Premium 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…

The 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.

A 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…

Following 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…

Another 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…

Following 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…

Following 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.

To help uphold consumer rights and some prodding from the Iran Information Technology Organization, Samsung has revised its smartphone warranty conditions.

In 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…

During 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…

Iran’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,…

In 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.

Central 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…

In 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…

The 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…

Following 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…

During 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…

Iran’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…