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To: RealMuLan who wrote (36867)	8/1/2003 12:25:52 PM
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Ningbo Bird beats Motorola in China handset sales in 1H Max Wang, Taipei; Chinmei Sung, DigiTimes.com [Friday 1 August 2003] Ningbo Bird snatched 15% of China’s domestic handset sales in the first half of the year, surpassing Motorola for the first time to become the largest handset vendor in China, according to China’s Ministry of Information Industry (MII). TCL Mobile, another domestic mobile phone vendor, squeezed out Nokia with an 11.6% market share and ranked as the third-largest brand. According to MII, total handset production volume reached over 82 million units in the first half, of which local handset companies churned out 22.9 million units. Domestic sales and exports account for 43.1 million and 36.8 million units, respectively, which means around 2.2 million handsets were still sitting idly in the factories. MII’s figures count handsets shipped from factories to distributors, not sales to end users. China had 37 licensed foreign and local handset makers as of the end of 2002. It is estimated that handset production in China will reach 170 million units this year, up 34% from about 126.8 million last year. digitimes.com