India has taken inspiration from the E.U. and will be requiring all mobile devices to be equipped with USB Type-C by March 2025.
The decision is in line with the recent European Union requirements, but with a little more wiggle room, time-wise, for device manufacturers to comply.imposing a “common charger for mobile devices,” which happens to be the popular USB Type-C port. This law is requesting that all device manufacturers adhere to the new requirements and make the necessary changes by 2024.
In contrast, although the Indian government is following the EU’s lead on this, it is being a bit more flexible with the timeline and asking companies to make USB Type-C the default charging port for all devices sold in the country by 2025. Additionally, according to, exceptions will be granted to devices such as feature phones, wearables, and hearables, so as not to make them cost-prohibitive.
For mobiles and electronics, USB Type-C port has been made mandatory, the industry players are also in board, but for feature phones, wearables and hearables, stakeholders have said that costs would increaseOf course, the elephant in the room remains to be what Apple will do to comply with these new regulations on the iPhone.
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