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Wednesday, October 27, 2004
Korea and Japan leading
Great article confirming that Korean and Japanese manufacturers (as a whole) now drive the mobile phone industry. Interestingly their own countries are also known to be the best ones in using new functions and services for mobile phones. The local market has been a key driver for Japan for a long time (be it cars, phones or whatever) but it shows now this equally well applies to Korea. Both already run UMTS or cdma2000 1X networks, so they are well off speed-wise and hence also the potential for on-line services is good. Much more so than in at least Europe. Rest assured though that e.g. Chinese manufacturers want to control their home market in the future.
Snippet about sales this year:
Mobile phone makers are expected to sell 670 million handsets to distributors this year, up from around 520 million units in 2003.
This is the result of booming demand from first-time mobile phone buyers in China, Russia, Brazil and India, while at the same time consumers in mature markets replace old handsets with new ones featuring color screens and cameras.
Yahoo! News - Korean and Japanese Phone Makers Win -Survey
Snippet about sales this year:
Mobile phone makers are expected to sell 670 million handsets to distributors this year, up from around 520 million units in 2003.
This is the result of booming demand from first-time mobile phone buyers in China, Russia, Brazil and India, while at the same time consumers in mature markets replace old handsets with new ones featuring color screens and cameras.
Yahoo! News - Korean and Japanese Phone Makers Win -Survey
