India overtaking China in ‘09

Posted on | July 22, 2005 |

At least in cell phone sales. According to a recent Gartner survey, Mobile phone sales will exceed one billion handsets a year by 2009 as they become the most common consumer electronics device with 2.6 billion people using one by then.

“China and India alone will account for nearly 200 million units in 2007, with the Indian market surpassing China in 2009 to reach 139 million units,” Asia Pacific analyst Ann Liang.

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