1 February 2008
There were 39.96 million GSM and CDMA handsets sold in China in the fourth quarter of 2007, with Nokia, Samsung and Motorola being the top three vendors with a combined market share of 60.2%, according to China-based consulting company Analysys International.
For CDMA models alone, Samsung and China-based Huawei Technologies were the top two vendors with market shares of 25.1% and 24.7%, respectively, last quarter, Analysys indicated.
The total sales volume in 2007 stood at 149.13 million handsets, rising by 64.5% from 2006 and consisting of 139.05 million GSM phones and 10.08 million CDMA phones.