Nokia&#39;s Ollila Says Global Mobile-Phone Users Reach 1.7 Billion
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Nokia Oyj Chief Executive Officer Jorma Ollila said there are 1.7 billion mobile-phone users globally, equivalent to 26 percent penetration, and market growth will come from camera phones and so-called smartphones.
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The world will have almost two billion mobile telephone users by 2006 due to growth in emerging markets such as India and China, the head of Swedish giant Ericsson revealed.
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(InfoWorld) - Worldwide mobile phone sales grew 21.5 percent year on year to 251 million units in the third quarter, with India and China driving growth, according to research from Gartner Inc. Gartner predicts that sales for the year will fall just shy of one billion phones. Sales should reach 986 million units by the end of the year, the research group said. Europe, one of the most mature mobile phone markets in the world, showed just 1.9 percent growth over the same quarter last year. Asia Pacific experienced the most dramatic gains, with sales of 80.8 million units during the third quarter, an increase of 54.7 percent over the same period last year. That significant growth happened despite a decline in sales of 4.7 percent in Japan compared to the third quarter in 2005. An increase in retail outlets and better distribution channels in emerging markets such as Indonesia, Philippines, and India significantly offset that loss though, driving growth in the region. Other regions of the world also reported solid growth. In Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa, sales grew 19 percent compared to last year, to 48 million phones. North American sales reached 40.8 million units, up 12 percent. Sales in Latin America grew 13.7 percent over the same time last year, to 29.8 million phones. Gartner reported that the smaller phone makers will increasingly struggle to compete against the giants. In the third quarter, Nokia, Motorola, and Samsung Electronics together accounted for 68 percent of phone sales. Among those three, competition is fierce. While Motorola increased its market share during the quarter, it lost its number one position in Latin America, to Nokia, and also lost its number two spot in Western Europe, to Samsung. Nokia has the largest market share worldwide, but failed to grow its market share in North America during the quarter. Nokia's worldwide market share was 35.1 percent, up from 32.5 percent in the same quarter last year. Motorola had 20.6 percent, compared to 18.7 percent during the third quarter in 2005. No. 3 vendor Samsung had 12.2 percent market share, just slightly down from 12.5 percent last year.
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Mobile phones are expected to generate greater revenue this year than traditional land lines with the nations of Africa, Asia and Latin America driving growth, a U.N. agency said Thursday.
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All handset vendors combined shipped  285 million cell phones in the July-September quarter, with  strong demand in Asia and Africa lifting sales 12 percent from  a year ago, research firm Strategy Analytics said on Thursday.
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Global mobile phone use will pass the 3  billion mark -- equivalent to half the world's population --  for the first time in 2007 as cell phone demand booms in China,  India and Africa, a survey said on Wednesday.
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Nokia Oyj, the world&#39;s largest mobile- phone maker, plans to introduce more than 20 handsets featuring cameras with at least 1 megapixel resolution next year in a bid to regain lost market share.
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HELSINKI: Nokia, the world&#39;s largest mobile phone maker, plans to bring 40 new handsets to the market next year as it seeks to expand its already dominant market share amid increased competition from rivals Motorola, Samsung Electronics and Sony Ericsson.
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HONG KONG (Dow Jones)--Nokia Corp. (NOK), the world&#39;s largest mobile phone maker, expects to launch more than 10 handset models operating on code division multiple access technology in 2005, a senior executive said Tuesday.
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The maker of mobile phones said a push into emerging markets drove handset sales to a record.
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The world&#39;s top cellphone maker,  Nokia, unveiled on Tuesday a new phone model, the Nokia E51,  for corporate users and said it still expects to fast growth in  the mobile e-mail market.
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Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo told attendees of the Nokia World 2006 Conference that Internet functionality will be the driving force in the next phase of mobile phone industry growth.
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The number of Indian subscribers for landline and mobile phone services is soaring, putting the country on track to have 250 million users by 2007.
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The 3G coverage of TeliaSonera Finland is 20 percent of the inhabitants of the whole country, revealed Pasi Mehtonen, vice president, products and services in his November MobileMonday presentation.
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The world&#39;s top cellphone maker Nokia  (NOK1V.HE) said on Tuesday its Nokia Maps application has been  downloaded over a million times since its launch in February  this year.
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Nokia has forecast that smartphone shipments worldwide are expected to increase to 238 million units by 2008, up from 23 million this year, according to Anssi Vanjoki, executive vice president and general manager of multimedia at Nokia.
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PRAGUE- The number of mobile phones in the Czech Republic grew by 520,000 to 10.24 million in Jan-Sept this year, with each citizen having one mobile phone number.