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To: Ian@SI who wrote (2871)	1/12/2001 1:53:24 PM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 3891

Mobile phone market not saturated yet, says Siemens 12/01/2001 Print this article \| Email this article to a friend Articles Email Bio The German mobile phone manufacturer, Siemens, has sought to reduce concerns about a global decline in handset sales. It said it would double handset sales in 2001. The announcement came after Nokia had revealed lower than expected sales figures this week. According to FT.com, Siemens sold 24m mobile handsets by September of last year. This figure had increased by November, which was a good month for the firm, with 4m handset sales recorded. Europe’s mobile phone market is not saturated yet, according to Siemens. The firm projected that the market will grow by a further 20-25 per cent over the next three years. Siemens established itself quickly within the global mobile phone market – jumping in rank from eight to fourth position worldwide within the last two years. Shares for the firm were up 2.82 per cent at E141.9 by the end of trading on the German Deutsche Börse on Thursday.

To: Ian@SI who wrote (2871)	1/12/2001 2:01:21 PM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 3891

Nokia and Siemens have firm grip on global handsets By Reuters Special to CNET News.com January 5, 2001, 6:55 a.m. PT HELSINKI, Finland--Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia tightened its grip on the global handset market in the third quarter of 2000, data showed Friday, with Siemens also gaining at the expense of Motorola and Ericsson. Figures from research group Gartner Dataquest showed Nokia with a market share of 30.6 percent, up over three percentage points from the second quarter and more than double that of Motorola which had a 13.3 percent share. Motorola's third-quarter share represented a fall of 2.3 percentage points from the second quarter. Ericsson also stumbled, shedding 0.6 percentage points to 9.7 percent. In addition to Nokia, Siemens also made big strides after its third-quarter market share surged 3.1 percentage points to 8.6 percent, overtaking Alcatel and Panasonic. The market share of Alcatel and Panasonic stayed roughly steady. The data supports comments by Nokia chief executive Jorma Ollila after third-quarter results in October when he said the company had won a few percentage points of market share in the quarter. Ollila told an annual analysts' meeting in London in December that Nokia aimed to grow faster than the mobile handset market over the next three years and take further market share from its competitors. He said the company aimed to be a market leader in all mobile phone product categories. Shares in all companies were largely unmoved by the figures. Motorola ended off almost six percent overnight in New York. Analysts say figures in line, wait for Q4 Analysts said the new figures reinforced trends seen earlier in the mobile market, with Nokia and an aggressive Siemens taking market share while Motorola and Ericsson--both with troubled mobile units--faltered. "The second-quarter numbers from Dataquest for Nokia were a bit at odds with what the industry thought, so these data seem to fit better with what we know about the companies," said Susan Anthony, analyst at Credit Lyonnais in London. "But they are also history, so we'll be looking to the fourth quarter to see how it developed given the statements we had from companies like Motorola and Ericsson," she said. Ericsson has said it expected fourth-quarter group operating profit to be around one percent of sales due to hefty losses at its mobile phone unit, with sales growing around 10 percent. The company reports fourth- quarter and 2000 results on Feb. 26. Motorola in December slashed its fourth-quarter profit estimate by more than 40 percent due to a slowing semiconductor market and delays in cost-cutting in wireless phone production. Motorola reports fourth- quarter and 2000 profits on Jan. 10. Nokia did not comment on its fourth-quarter result at its December London analysts' meeting, but said in October it expected a record-breaking fourth quarter in earnings per share. Nokia is scheduled to report on Jan. 30. Dataquest said European market share figures would be available in the next few weeks.