Demand for telecom equipment rise by 73%, maximum searches for EPABX machines & mobile phone signal boosters: JD Mart Consumer Insights, Demand in Tier-I cities rise by 66% and Tier-II by 77%

Mumbai, 31st March 2022 (GNI): With offices coming back to physical mode, demand for telecom equipment across India is on a rise with maximum searches being witnessed for EPABX machines and mobile phone signal boosters, reports the latest JD Mart Consumer Insights.

Search trends on JD Mart, India’s latest B2B platform by Just Dial, revealed that the demand for telecom equipment has risen by 73% YOY as businesses and offices are gradually going back to the physical mode in a phased manner. 

Tier-II cities are witnessing a faster demand growth rate vis-à-vis Tier-I cities in India. While the bulk of the searches are happening in Tier-I cities that saw a YOY growth rate of 66%, the demand rise in Tier-II cities was 77%.

Commenting on the trend, Mr. Prasun Kumar, CMO, Just Dial, said: “It is encouraging to see that businesses across the country are picking up and this uptick is being reflected on JD Mart. At JD Mart, we have tried to aggregate a large section of the B2B market for a wide range of categories. The rise in consumer demand on the platform validates the fact that JD Mart has brought online a host of suppliers and manufacturers of telecom equipment.”

Demand for EPABX machines in India saw a YOY rise of 74% while that for mobile phone signal boosters by 62%. Demand rise for EPABX in Tier-I cities was 69% and in Tier-II it was 78%. For mobile phone signal boosters, it was 52% in Tier-I and 72% in Tier-II. 

Among Tier-I cities, Mumbai, Delhi, and Bengaluru were the top-3 cities that saw maximum demand for EPABX machines. Jaipur, Chandigarh, Mysore, Patna, and Nagpur were the top-5 Tier-II cities where EPABX machines were in maximum demand.

Delhi, Mumbai, and Ahmedabad were the top-3 Tier-I cities that saw maximum demand for mobile phone signal boosters while Bhopal, Coimbatore, Chandigarh, and Madurai were the Tier-II cities that saw maximum searches, stated in the press release.

About Just Dial Limited provides local search related services to users in India through multiple platforms such as Desktop/PC website (https://www.justdial.com), mobile site (https://t.justdial.com), mobile apps (Android & iOS), over the telephone (Voice, pan India number 88888-88888) and text (SMS). Justdial’s latest version of JD App, is an All-in-One App, replete with features like Map-aided Search, Live TV, Videos, Stock quotes, etc. to make the life of the consumer infinitely smoother & more engaging.

The Company has recently launched its B2B marketplace platform, JD Mart. JD Mart platform, available at  https://www.jdmart.com and via apps on Play Store and App Store, is aimed at enabling millions of India’s manufacturers, distributors, wholesalers, retailers to become internet-ready in post-COVID era, get new customers and sell their products online. The platform offers digital product catalogues to businesses and aims at digitalising India’s businesses, especially MSMEs, across categories. Buyers can discover quality vendors offering a wide selection of products to choose from, spread across millions of categories to suit all B2B needs.

Justdial has also initiated transaction-oriented services for its users. These services aim at making several day-to-day tasks conveniently actionable and accessible to users from one App. With this step, Justdial is transitioning from being purely a provider of local search and related information to being a direct/ indirect enabler of such transactions. Justdial has also recently launched an end-to-end business management solution for SMEs, through which it intends to transition thousands of SMEs to efficiently run business online and have their adequate online presence via their own website, mobile site. Apart from this, Justdial has also launched JD Pay, a unique solution for quick digital payments for its users and vendors.ends