Jon and all,
According to Tero, Nokia and ERICY have won mobil phone wars in China front. And MOT is a big loser. Nokia is the biggest winner in picking up market share. After reading the following report, would you not agree that it is still pretty early to determine who win or lose in China fornt just yet? May be counting the counterfeit ones and NOKA will have 95% of mobil phone market. And MSFT's operating system products have 105% of China market.(g)
China's mobile phone user population tops 18 mln
BEIJING, Aug 3 (Reuters) - The number of mobile phone users in China has exceeded 18 million since the device was introduced in the late 1980s, Xinhua news agency reported.
The decade it took for mobile phone users to reach 18 million compares with 100 years for the country to have 10 million private telephones, the agency said.
The mobile phone's proliferation was due in part to heavy investment by foreign firms, it said.
Xinhua said the U.S. firm Motorola Inc (MOT - news) lead China's mobile phone market with nearly a third of the market and after-sale service outlets throughout the country.
Sweden's Ericsson Inc (LME00220.ST), and Finland's Nokia (NOKSa.HE) were next behind the U.S. giant, it said, but gave no details on respective market share.
As of the end May, China had about 80 million telephones for its population of 1.23 billion, compared to 10 million in 1991.
Xinhua said China's mobile phone user population was expected to peak at 600 million, based on an estimate of the country's projected population peak at 1.5 billion in the middle of the next century.
On Monday the People's Daily reported that about five million mobile phone users owned smuggled mobile phones, causing losses of about 5.0 billion yuan ($602.4 million) in tax revenues.
It blamed the problem on lax checks by customs officers and called on authorities to punish more severely those selling contraband mobile phones.
China's high duties on imported products and state-set prices for commodities that are higher than world prices have spawned a massive problem with smuggling and duty evasion.
China last month unveiled a major anti-smuggling drive and ordered the national's military, widely thought to be the chief culprit in smuggling, to sever its ties with thousands of businesses it runs.
Brian H. |
