2006-12-03 22:47:52 · 3 answers · asked by emma f 1 in Consumer Electronics ➔ Cell Phones & Plans
35 million in the UK, the average life of a phone, two years!
2006-12-03 22:51:09 · answer #1 · answered by My name's MUD 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1 billion phones sold each year by 2009, Yehaa!
According to researcher Gartner, sales of mobile phones are on pace to reach 1 billion units annually by 2009. Handset sales this year are tracking at 779 million units by year's end. Gartner predicts that there will be 2.6 billion cell phones in circulation by 2009, estimating that 40 percent of the world's population will own a cell phone by that time. Asian countries will play a major role in the continued growth of the handset market. Twenty-five percent of all mobile phones are currently sold in Asian countries. By the end of this decade that number will grow to one-in-three. Mobile phones are now the world's most popular personal electronics devices, outpacing cameras, PCs, and landline phones in sales.
Gartner also noted that sales of smart phones, mobile phones that pack more advanced features, will represent about one-fifth of all mobile handset sales by 2008. That's good news for the likes of Symbian and other mobile phone operating system makers, which are banking on the smart phone market taking off.
2006-12-03 23:01:46 · answer #2 · answered by Armenian P 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I work at phones 4 u & from January to last month we did 1 million connections! Thats just contracts! so if you added pay as you go phone sales and sim free handset sales on top of that, a hell of alot of phones!!
2006-12-05 00:14:30 · answer #3 · answered by lucy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋