Motorola has highest marketshare in 5 years
Posted Aug 25th 2006 8:18AM by Brian White
Filed under: Cellular, Business
Looks like Motorola is indeed taking on a new mission -- to capture as much marketshare as possible. Whether it's by design or not, the American wireless handset maker has just
posted its highest global marketshare in over five years, with 21.9% of all phones sold worldwide.
Motorola seems to be gunning for world leader Nokia in a huge way on the backs of the slim phone category is virtually created. Motorola, though, still have over 12% marketshare to gain if it is to challenge Nokia for the top spot, as it sold just over 50 million phones in the second quarter to Nokia's 77 million.
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1. Global mobile-phone unit sales rose 18 percent in the second quarter to 229 million units from a year earlier, Stamford, Connecticut-based Gartner said. Sales this year will probably gain 18 percent to 960 million units from 817 million units sold in 2005, the researcher reiterated. That will be up from 674 million units in 2004.
Posted at 11:12AM on Aug 25th 2006 by Philip