World mobile sales surge 30pc, South China Morning Post, 8 Mar 2005

“Global sales of mobile phone handsets surged 30 per cent last year to a record led by growth in South America, with more strong sales expected for this year amid fierce price competition, research house Gartner said on Tuesday…Nokia of Finland remained the industry leader, with sales in last year of 207.2 million handsets, giving it a market share of 30.7 per cent. Motorola of the United States was placed second at 15.4 per cent share, with sales of 104.1 million. South Korea’s Samsung was No3 at 12.6 per cent market share, followed by Germany’s Siemens at 7.2 per cent, South Korea’s LG at 6.3 per cent and the Japanese-Swedish venture Sony Ericsson at 6.2 per cent.�

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