Nokia Says Sales in Russia Up 7.7% on Year in 2006

MOSCOW, Jan 29 (Prime-Tass) -- The Russian sales of Finnish telecommunications equipment producer Nokia rose 7.7% on the year to 1.518 billion euros in 2006, the company said in a press release Monday.

In Russia, Nokia accounted for 25.4% of the mobile handset market in 2006, according to estimates of Russia?s largest mobile handset retailer Euroset.

Nokia controlled about 36% of the world's mobile handset market in 2006, according to the company's own estimates.

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Posted to the site on 29th January 2007