China handset sales exceed 150 million last year

Xinhua News (Reporter Gu Xiaoyu) yesterday, Analysys International released the "2009 fourth quarter, China Mobile Terminal Market Quarterly monitoring" data showed that 2009 fourth quarter of the domestic mobile phone sales in the first three quarters of weakness, the total reached 48.775 million, also made 2009 sales reached 157 million. Data show that in the fourth quarter of 2008 to the third quarter of 2009, this 4 consecutive quarterly sales in China's mobile phone market has always been below 40 million, while the quarter jumped to nearly 50 million, the chain growth of up to 24.8%. From different standards, the fourth quarter of 2009 domestic GSM mobile phone sales amounted to 33.7 million, the chain rose 6.2%;CDMA mobile phone total 11.39 million, the chain up 78.8%, and 3G mobile phone sales total 3.683 million, sales for the first time more than 3 million mark.