Breakdown of phone shipments by region, by type from YAHOO
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Latin America Cellular/PCS Shipments for 1Q99 Show Significant
TechnologyShift
WASHINGTON, June 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Cellular/PCS handset shipments in
Latin America showed a significant technology shift from analog AMPS to digital
TDMA over the first three months of 1999, according to quarterly results from
Strategis dataBank(TM): World Cellular/PCS Handset Shipments. Latin America's
TDMA handset shipments accounted for 63% of Latin America's total shipments
for the quarter, while analog accounted for 26%. By contrast, North America is
still dominated by analog technology, which represented 53% of total first quarter
shipments for the region.
Regional Cellular/PCS Handset Shipments by Technology
1/1/99-3/31/99 (in thousands)
North America Europe Asia-Pacific Latin America/
Africa/Caribbean Middle East
Analog 5,868.6 806.9 611.5 1,068.9 186.7
GSM 741.7 21,996.7 7,970.3 70.3 1,122.3
TDMA 2,303.4 8.1 36.8 2,628.1 161.8
CDMA 2,117.8 0.0 4,421.9 398.6 50.7
PHS 0 0 214 0 0
PDC 0 0 4,040.7 0 0
AMPS/TDMA 0 0 0 2.2 0
AMPS/DAMPS 0 46.3 0 0 0
Total 11,031.5 22,858 17,295.2 4,168.1 1,521.6 |
