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The world’s top cellphone maker, Nokia, said sales in its China region — including China, Hong Kong and Taiwan — grew 39 percent in 2006 from a year earlier to more than 5.3 billion euros ($6.91 billion), amid strong export sales and expansion into rural markets.Nokia’s export sales out of China rose 67 percent to 4.8 billion euros over the same period, the company said in a statement sent to Reuters on Friday. It added that domestic China sales came to more than 35 billion yuan ($4.5 billion).
China has been Nokia’s single largest market since 2005 and the company won network expansion contracts from provinces Guangdong, Hunan and Sichuan last year, the statement said.
"Nokia’s market share is now greater than 35 percent in mainland China," said Colin Giles, Senior Vice President of Nokia customer and market operations, China Area.
Source: Reuters
Brilliant, way to go Nokia!
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Stefan Constantinescu
Stefan Constantinescu (@WhatTheBit on Twitter) has loved technology since as far back as he can remember. It started with computers, but in the past few years his passion has turned to mobile devices. As a mobile phone enthusiast who lives and breathes devices that connect to the internet, he knows he is not alone with this radical fascination of all things wireless. He is strongly opinionated and enjoys a good debate so leave comments in his posts and he’ll get back to you! Stefan began blogging as a hobby in the fall of 2006 and joined IntoMobile in the summer of 2007. Later he got a job at Nokia in March 2008, but as of June 2009 he has rejoined the IntoMobile team. He is currently based out of Helsinki, Finland.
