Mobile import tariff reduction beneficial to consumers

“A 15 percent cut in import tariff will enable authorized mobile set importers to offer sets with valid warranties,” Pars ComTel managing director Hussein Payandeh told Irans mobile news agency (Mobna).
He believed the new tariff could drive out the smugglers.
He said 80 percent of mobile market is now in the hands of smugglers, against whom authorized importers cannot really compete and are therefore forced to import low price sets in order to stay in business.
Pars ComTel is one of three authorized importers of Sony-Ericsson handsets in the country which also offers Motorola and LG handsets with authentic warranties.

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