Samsung seeks to sell up to 270m handsets this year
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Keeping its focus on the high-end handset market and strengthening its presence in advanced markets, Samsung Electronics hoped to sell 260 million to 270 million handsets globally this year.
A record 69 million handsets had already been shipped by Samsung in the fourth quarter, up 31% from 52.8 million a year earlier. The company had a global market share of 21.3% by selling a total of 227 million mobile handsets in 2009, up from 196.6 million units sold in 2008.
Worldwide DSL subscriptions hit 164 million
Global DSL subscriptions went up to 164 million by 30 June, according to data produced for the international DSL Forum by industry analyst Point Topic. Worldwide, the number of DSL users increased by almost 46 million, a growth of 38 percent in the twelve months. In the European Union a further 18 million broadband subscribers chose DSL in the year to 30 June, a growth of 45 percent. In total, there are more than 56 million DSL subscribers in the EU, accounting for more than one-third of the global total. South and South East Asia increased its global market share of total DSL subscribers to 22 percent, adding more than 13 million new subscribers in the twelve-month period . China contributed the bulk of this growth (up 11.6 million), and India added more than 1.3 million subscribers to DSL, the fastest growing market worldwide. Latin America
added more than 3 million DSL subscribers, with Brazil (up 1.19 million) and Mexico (up 939,000) leading the way. In the Middle East and Africa, growth was dominated by Turkey (up 1.3 million). In North America, DSL is steadily increasing its share of the total broadband market and now accounts for more than 46 percent of the region’s broadband subscribers. In the period, broadband DSL (up 6.36 million) added more subscribers than cable modem (up 5.45 million), with growth in Canada (DSL up 22.2%) and the USA (DSL up 32.7%) both far outstripping cable modem growth.
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