Dropbox, the free online storage service company, which is on par with the growth of Facebook and Twitter is to finally enter India by partnering local mobile service providers and the web companies.
The online storage company when recently said it had no plans of setting up an office in India, seems to be okay with partnership arrangements. The company couldn’t resist to enter one of the fastest growing internet markets in the world that would take Dropbox to a whole new level. “For us it doesn't make sense to have a local sales team in the short term, but we'll work through partners," VP and business development head, Sujay Jaswa said, as reported by Times Of India. Jaswa also said that the company is in talks with several companies but declined to disclose the company’s identities “as the talks are in the early stages”.
According to the sources, the 10 billion file hosting company has quite a lot of user line from India, thanks to increasing smartphones and mobile apps in the country. According to Gartner, Smartphone industry in India grew exponentially in 2013 with 40 million units where the consumers are upgrading from feature based phones to touch screen based internet ready phones offered in low prices.
"The product is currently being used by wealthy Indians who have access to internet on their mobile phones but the adoption is expected to increase as the country builds better mobile and internet infrastructure," said Jaswa, who was the twenty-fifth employee when he joined Dropbox.
Apparently, the Indian internet users have crossed over 200 million which will grow more if the connectivity increases to the rural areas too. The companies like Google and Facebook are already looking forward to the rural users and which would be an added advantage for India’s growth in technology.
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