Cell Phones

February, 2006

China's Mobile Phone Subscribers Reach Almost 400 Million

China's Ministry of Information Industry has officially announced communication services related statistics as of the end of 2005. According to the statistics, the number of mobile phone service subscribers is 393,428 million, 58,604 million more compared to the previous year. It indicates that subscriber numbers continued to grow at a fast rate of about 3 million per month. The number of subscribers to mobile phone packet communication services, including GPRS, is 71,011 million. These subscribers increased to 44,937 million, more than double the number a year earlier.

Meanwhile, the number of Internet users is 111 million. Fixed broadband service users expanded to 12,629 million households from the preceding year and reached 37,504 million. Of the 37,504 million households, DSL service subscribers account for 26,359 million and wireless LAN and relevant service subscribers constitute 34,000.

Tetsuo Nozawa, Nikkei Electronics

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January, 2006

Camera-enabled Cellular Phone Market Forecast to Rise from 225 million units in 2004 to 600 million units by 2007
 The camera-enabled cellular phone market is forecast to be 365 million units in 2005, up from 225 million units in 2004, rising to 475 million in 2006, 600 million in 2007, and 780 million by 2008, according to a report from US-based IC Insights. Shipments will be almost 1 billion units by 2010. In 2005, 45 percent of total handsets shipped are forecast to be camera-enabled handsets, vs. 34 percent in 2004. The figure will rise to 54 percent in 2006, 62 percent in 2007, 68 percent in 2008, and nearly three-quarters in 2009, when shipments of camera phones will be 910 million units. In Japan, the cellular handset market was 52 million units in 2005, up 27 percent vs. 2002. The digital-camera-equipped cellphone market in Japan was 47 million units in 2005, up over two-fold from 19 million in 2002.

EE Times

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2005

Gartner says in the second quarter of 2005, the mobile phone market experienced the second strongest quarter on record (in the fourth quarter of 2004 worldwide sales surpassed 195.3 million units).

Mobile Phone Sales Rose 21 Percent in the Second Quarter of 2005

Gartner also says Mobile phone sales will reach 779 million units in 2005.

Mobile Phone Sales Will Exceed One Billion in 2009