1.2 Billion Mobile phones sold worldwide in 2009
Worldwide mobile phone sales declined 0.9% in 2009 to 1.21 billion units according to a recent report from Gartner.
Despite the annual decline there was some good news as mobile phone sales increased 8.3% to 340 million units in the final quarter of year.
1.2 Billion Mobile devices expected to be sold in 2009
Worldwide sales of mobile devices to consumers are expected to reach 1.214 billion units in 2009, a small 0.67 per cent decline from 2008, according to a recent report from Gartner.
Smartphone volumes will represent 14 per cent of total mobile devices sales in 2009, growing by 23.6 per cent from 2008.
287 million mobile phones sold in third quarter
Worldwide mobile phone shipments totaled 287.1 million units in the third quarter of 2009 according to report today from IDC.
IDC`s Worldwide Mobile Phone Tracker shows that sales in the July to Septembers time frame were down 6.0% from the same period a year earlier but up 5.6% from the second quarter of this year.
Mobile subs to reach 4.6 billion in 2009
The International Telecommunications Union’s (ITU) latest statistics, published yesterday, reveal rapid growth in Information and Communication technologies (ICT) around the world with mobile technology now acting as a key driver.
ITU expects global mobile subscriptions to reach a whopping 4.6 billion by the end of the year (up from 4.1 billion at the end of 2008), and mobile broadband subscriptions to top 600 million in 2009, having overtaken fixed broadband subscribers in 2008.
