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Samsung India, the electronics major, has launched world’s first open market handset (OMH) phone, Mpower 699, in India. The open market handset phone has been launched in collaboration with CDMA phone maker Qualcomm.
“This technology will help migration between operators in all our CMDA (Code Division Multiple Access) phones," Samsung India country head Sunil Dutt said on the event of the handset launch. The handset comes at a cost of Rs. 7,000.
The OMH technology will provide the CDMA customers the flexibility to use the handset without a CDMA operator.
According to Qualcomm India and South Asia president Kanwalinder Singh, along with Qualcomm, Reliance Communication and Tata Indicomm have also played vital roles for the development of this technology. He added that MTS and Virgin Mobile will be soon be launching SIM cards that are OMH compliant.
After India, Samsung will focus launching the OMH complaint phone in Southeast Asia, Middle Eastern countries and Sub-Saharan Africa, Dutt added.
"There will be three more launches of OMH phones in India by December and another two by March”, he said.
