Nearly 16% of All Mobile Phones are Sold in China
A new report from Reportlinker has noted that the global sale of mobile phone amounted to 515 million sets in the first half of 2007, of which 81million sets (taking 15.7%) were distributed in Mainland China.
In 1H2007, the sales volume in Chinese market reached 83 million sets including 75 million GSM handsets and 6.1 million CDMA handsets. Sales volume of unlicensed handset and smuggled handset stood approximately at 13 million sets. Producers like Gionee and Changhong carried the sales by TV. And Tianyu and ZTE handsets emerged rapidly. Moreover, the price of Lenovo handset dropped sharply, and mobile phone performance-to-price ratio of those manufacturers are not inferior to that of smuggled goods.
According to the data by the Ministry of Information Industry, handset shipment in Mainland China in 1H2007 arrived at 266.8 million sets, up by 33.4% year-on-year.
Revenue was RMB 161.08 billion, with a rise of 29.6% compared to the same period last year. Of all, CDMA handset got to 32.8 million sets; and GSM handset 234 million sets. Besides, 83 million sets were sold at home and 183.8 million were distributed abroad.
Posted to the site on 3rd December 2007
