Price down

Deepa Rai Bangdel
Lalitpur, March 1

The decrease in cell phone prices in Nepal has caught the attention of many.
The main causes of slipping prices of cell phones is Brand competition.
People are more prone to buy a particular cell phone model when it is brand
new, but a few months, its price falls. In today's market, the price of a cell phone hardly stays constant for more than few months. Suman Gurung, salesperson at Mobile plaza in New road said '' In December 2010, Nokia E71's price was Rs 24,800 but by February 2011, its price had fall to Rs 22,400 and Samsung Corby was Rs 13,900 but now it fall at Rs 9,900.'' The low range cell phones are with fall of only Rs 2,000 to Rs 3,000. When the prices fall in the international market, there are more people to bring products into Nepal as said by Eakesh Bhandari,salesperson at Sony Ericssion store in Tamrakar Plaza. He adds more that the only way to sell old models which are losing their edge is to make them cheap.
Changes in sales can more often be attributed to the age of a model. The cell phone industry is flourishing in Nepal and the customer base for mobile stores is ever expanding.Some may wait those extra months to have had their eye on and others are busy to run to the markets to grap it. All
customers can look forward to more drops.