Global numbers on mobile sales

Apparently, the numbers keep still growing rapidly in the October to December 2004, but research company Strategy Analytics also sees a slow-down ahead.

The numbers differ a bit from global numbers provided earlier in our blog - here, Samsung displaced Motorola as the number 2 but this related to the total of the period under review. In adition, it shows the challenges companies face in a fluid market, many data providers and ongoing developments.

But basically, the article at hand states the following global market share numbers for the last quarter:

- Nokia - 33.1% (-1.5%)
- Motorola - 15.9% (+1.9%)
- Samsung - 10.6% (+0.9%)
- LG Electronics - 7% (+1.4%)
- Sony Ericsson -6.3% (+1.3%)

I sure think that this is interesting. It shows that there are a lot of smaller players still around in the mobile phone production and in fact, their number probably increased over the last couple of years with the expansion of China and its tremendous market potential. What will happen if India is coming up? Will we have some Indian market players entering the mobile phone market? Now this is interesting!

(By Asia Business Consulting)