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Sharma: Micromax revenue quickly surged to 100 crore rupees around 2003

Rahul Sharma · Ep #23 | WTF are Consumer Electronics? | Nikhil ft. Carl Pei, Rahul Sharma & Amit Khatri · Nikhil Kamath · Apr 26, 2025 · at 33:28

Rahul Sharma, co-founder of Micromax, discusses how adapting Nokia's fixed wireless terminal hardware for Indian payphones rapidly expanded Micromax's early B2B telecommunications business.

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“From three, four crore rupees annually. We started doing around hundred crore rupees in, you know, very quickly we scaled up.”

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The claim, plainly

Micromax scaled its annual revenue from 3–4 crore rupees to approximately 100 crore rupees around 2003 through its fixed wireless terminal business.

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Assessment

The core commercial claim that Micromax rapidly scaled its revenue to approximately ₹90–100 crore via its fixed wireless terminal (FWT) business prior to its consumer mobile handset boom is broadly supported by corporate milestone disclosures and mid-2000s turnover records (which listed annual turnover at roughly ₹90 crore). However, the stated timeline of 'around 2003' is materially inaccurate. Regulatory filings and contemporary trade reporting confirm that Micromax was operating as a software development firm in 2003 and did not enter the Nokia FWT distribution business until 2005, with device volumes peaking in 2007.

Corporate milestone disclosures and trade reporting from September 2005 show Micromax entered the M2M and Nokia Fixed Wireless Terminal distribution business in 2005, not 2003.
In 2003, Micromax operated as a software and IT solutions developer (such as developing traffic systems for the Airports Authority of India).
Mid-2000s industry supplier profiles recorded Micromax Informatics Ltd's annual turnover at approximately ₹90 crore, and co-founder disclosures noted FWT sales peaked in 2007 at roughly 100,000 units before FY 2008–09 revenue reached ₹350 crore.

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