Mobile sales come down, but still in double-digits

Chennai: Mobile phone as a category is witnessing the slowest sales growth in the e-commerce space this year. Saturation in the market, combined with the economic slowdown, has pulled down online mobile sales growth to low double-digits.

Ever since the e-commerce sector started growing in India, mobile phones have been numero uno in the marketplace, as the largest-selling category growing multi-fold. Even during the demonetisation and GST implementation phase, the mobile phones have been growing by 40 to 50 per cent and had grabbed half of the e-commerce market.