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Article: DOMESTIC MOBILE PHONE INDUSTRY TAKES ON BUBBLE ECONOMY
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- December 31, 2002
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Domestic Mobile Phone Industry Takes on Bubble Economy
BEIJING, Dec 31, 2002 (SinoCast via COMTEX) -- Statistics from Ministry
of Information Industry as at end of November show that over 200.31
million consumers in China are using mobile phones. According to the
tenth Five-Year Plan, mobile phone users in China shall hit 260-290
million by 2005.
The growth from 60 million in year 2002 to 90 million in 2005 in mobile
phone users indicates that Chinese mobile phone industry is reaching
its saturation limits in town.
Bird announced on December 17 that its gross output of mobile phones
this year will exceed 10 million; CECT claimed in this September that
its mobile ...