DOMESTIC MOBILE PHONE VENDORS PULLING UP

AsiaInfo Services, December, 2002

AsiaInfo Services 12-23-2002 Domestic Mobile Phone Vendors Pulling Up CHINA, Dec 23, 2002 (SinoCast via COMTEX) -- The year 2002 is a turning point for China's mobile phone market. Before 2002, the market is dominated by Ericsson, Motorola and Nokia, but the merge between Sony and Ericsson comes with a better-than-ever opportunity for Chinese phone makers to catch up.

Now, there are more than 30 domestic brands in the market with hundreds of models. As the market becoming mature and the industry chain shuffled, many OBMs and ODMs are emerged through low-cost operation and less investment (Original Brand Manufacturer, Original Design Manufacturer). They only focus on one or two procedure of the whole production processing, and subcontract rest of the procedures...

Read the rest of this article with a Free Trial at HighBeam Research.

Premium Content Partnership | HighBeam Research provides an in-depth online archive library of reference works.