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News Release from: Informa Telecoms and Media
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 05 October 2006
The end is nigh for handset boom
Report predicts global handset sales to top 1.25 billion by 2011, but 2006 will be the last year of massive overall worldwide growth.
The rate of overall worldwide mobile handset growth will slow dramatically from 2007, according to Informa Telecoms and Media The latest edition of Informa's flagship report, entitled "Future mobile handsets" (8th edition), reveals that saturation in developed markets will start to balance out the booming growth in emerging regions
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 8 Nov 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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Informa predicts the number of handsets shipped will still rise from 814.4 million at the end of 2005 to 1.255 billion by 2011.
"Handset manufacturers have enjoyed a fantastic time of it in recent years, but they're really going to struggle to sell as many handsets and sustain the same levels of profitability", commented Dave McQueen, Principal Analyst at Informa Telecoms and Media.
"The growth in developing markets such as India, China and Latin America is impressive but we are not seeing the same levels of phone take-up per capita".
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