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China saw sales of 120 million mobile phones in 2006

Mon, 05 Feb 2007

Mobile phone sales in China has increased by 40 per cent year on year to 120 million units in 2006, said deputy chief of the China Mobile Communications Association Xie Linzhen.

Xie said China had become one of the world's largest handset markets and is currently expecting sales to touch 150 million units this year, according to the report.

In 2006 China produced a total of 450 million mobile phones out of which around 350 million were exported, he noted.

According to the Ministry of Information, foreign mobile phone giants Nokia and Motorola are the two dominating mobile phone makers in the country, while local mobile phone makers sold only 50 million units in domestic and overseas markets.

Xie said, "Global mobile phone sales climbed 25 per cent last year, with total shipments reaching one billion units. Worldwide sales were expected to grow 20 pct this year."

"The rapid increase in mobile phone sales is a result of a booming world economy which is allowing people to upgrade to a newer mobile phone more often. Last year the number of mobile users in China reached 461 million, up 68 million from 2005,"he added.

"Chinese phone users on average buy new mobile phones every 21 months," he said.
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