{"id":547334,"date":"2005-11-23T00:36:45","date_gmt":"2005-11-23T00:36:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/547334-global-mobile-phone-sales-up-22-to-205-4m-in-q3.html"},"modified":"2005-11-23T00:36:45","modified_gmt":"2005-11-23T00:36:45","slug":"global-mobile-phone-sales-up-22-to-205-4m-in-q3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/547334-global-mobile-phone-sales-up-22-to-205-4m-in-q3.html","title":{"rendered":"Global mobile phone sales up 22% to 205.4m in Q3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">Gartner, a provider of research and analysis on the information technology industry, also said that the three-month period was the biggest quarter since it started tracking the market on a quarterly basis in 2001.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Gartner&#8217;s Carolina Milanesi noted that year-on-year cellphone sales grew\u00a0in all regions as replacements in mature markets continued to drive growth while users in emerging markets acquired their first handsets.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">In developing markets including Africa, sales almost matched Western Europe with 39.7 million units &#8211; a 40% jump over the previous comparable period.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">The main drivers included markets such as Nigeria, Turkey, Russia and South Africa whose mobile penetration level is now estimated at above 60%.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">During the third quarter, the North American market grew 36.3 million mobile phones while 26.1 million units were sold in Latin America.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Second-placed Motorola had the largest market share increase among the top five vendors but Nokia retained its market leadership position with 32.6% share while Samsung came third followed by Sony Ericson and LG.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Inet-Bridge<\/font><\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global cellphone sales rose 22% to 205.4 million units in the third quarter ended September, Gartner said on Tuesday, adding that it expects sales to total 810 million units in 2005.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-547334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547334"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}