Global sales of mobile phone in the first quarter of this year dropped 13%
Xinhua News Agency in Paris, France, “Les Echos” on 4th to invoke the relevant data, reported that in the first quarter of this year, the global sales of mobile phone last year dropped by 13% over the same period, which major landslide since the mobile phone available in the global mobile phone market it has never experienced. Data showed that in the first quarter of this year, sales of the global mobile phone were less than 245 million. The global top five mobile phone brands overall contraction, but not the same as the sales in decline.
Japanese mobile phone brewing to return to China in 3G times
“About the Samsung mobile phones and LG mobile phones recently in China, many officers received a call from Sharp headhunting.” Chen Jing (a pseudonym) who has just switched from Samsung handset division to the Sharp business and is responsible for the mobile phone business in China, recently have held meetings and busy formulating the expansion program in 2009 of Sharp China mobile phone, which naturally also draw on a number models of Samsung mobile phones in China’s business.
3G started the war in March so Chinamobile and Chinatelecom in the first round of competition for first line telecommunications cities
3G licensing later, between the operators the “tension” of potential competition has become increasingly evident. From the view of China Mobile and China Telecom’s 3G network up-to-date information, in March this year will a key node in the key cities for the promotion of 3G services. On 16th held by China Mobile, at internal communication of TD-SCDMA industry development, Li Yue, the vice president of China Mobile, said in March this year, will open in 28 cities most TD base stations built in the second network.
In Japan 9 large electronics giants in 08 fiscal year the total operating profit was expected to drop 56 percent
Judging from the current data, 9 large electronics giants’ total operating profits with plus or minus net 1,050 billion yen left, above 56 percent decline in the previous year’s level, which was the worst performance of Japan’s Electric Industrial since the beginning of recovery year in 2003 the IT bubble burst.
The Japanese government in fiscal year 2008 unified payment of fixed subsidies which encountered difficulties
On January 14th according to Japan’s Kyodo news agency Xinhua reported that on the evening of 13rd the Japanese Diet’s House of Representatives passed a second supplementary budget and other related bills in 2008, which bill including the total amount of 2,000 billion yen fixed subsidy. Its process of Senate consideration in the opposition parties a majority of seats is bound to difficulty.
Japan’s domestic mobile phone market remained subdued and Fujitsu came into the Asian market
On January 14th according to Taiwan’s “Commercial Times” it was reported that, in the face of Japan’s domestic mobile phone market remained weak, Japan’s Fujitsu decided to enter the mobile phone market in Asia. According to the Nihon Keizai Shimbun reported on Tuesday that the Fujitsu and NTT DoCoMo would cooperate to develop mobile phones in their Chinese and Korean software. This would help its future cost savings, because its existing mobile phone can be easily modified and introduced to overseas markets.
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