Mobile phone sales hit 817m in 2005
Afp, Paris
Worldwide sales of mobile telephones rose by 21.0 percent last year when a total of 816.6 million handsets were taken up by users, and slightly more than half of them were made by Nokia and Motorola, a study by Gartner research showed on Tuesday. Overall sales were driven by continuing demand in emerging markets, and by consumers in Western Europe and North America who snapped up new models to replace their existing mobiles. Stiff competition among major players drove down prices for basic handsets and increased pressure to add applications and change design, it said. Six companies shared 79.4 percent of the market last year, according to the study: Nokia, Motorola, LG, Samsung, Sony Ericsson and Siemens.
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