Alcatel aims to gather 10 million dollars from its tablet PC segment Smartphone maker Alcatel aims to garner USD 10 million revenue from its portfolio of tablet PCs, a segment where it hopes to corner 10 percent market share by the end of this year. The company has recently launched three new tablet PCs, the latest one being the A3 10. These will compete against products from the stables of Datawind, Samsung and Micromax, among others. “Tablet is a fairly new category for us. While we had products in the international market, we have just started expanding into the Indian market. We hope to exit 2017 with 10 percent market share,” Praveen Valecha, Regional Director at Alcatel India told PTI. He added that the company expects the tablet PC vertical will clock revenues of about USD 10 million in this calendar year. According to research firm CMR, sales of tablet PCs in India declined 16 percent year-on-year to around 7.6 lakh units in the January-March 2017 quarter. Compared t...