Statistics: Cell/Mobile Phone Vendors Ship Over 1 Billion Phones in 2006, Top Five Mobile Phone Vendors, Shipments, and Market Share, FY 2006
Cell phone vendors shipped 1.019 billion phones in 2006, 22.5 percent more than the 832.8 million they sold in 2005, according to the research firm IDC.
Helping propel phone shipments was an especially strong fourth quarter, with 294.9 million units shipped, 19.7 percent higher than the 246.4 million that phone makers sold in the fourth quarter of 2005.
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+ Chart: Top Five Mobile Phone Vendors, Shipments, and Market Share, Q4 2006 (Preliminary)
+ Chart: Top Five Mobile Phone Vendors, Shipments, and Market Share, FY 2006 (Preliminary)
Source: Red Herring