[photopress:Nokia_ad.jpg,full,alignright]Nokia, a Finnish company (which has originally a pulp mill and has made everything from wellington boots to ice breakers and some pretty iffy personal computers under the ICL brand) is the world’s top mobile phone maker and it has been making them since 1987. It reports sales in its China region grew 39% in 2006 from a year earlier to more than US$6.91 billion.
China has been Nokia’s single largest market since 2005 and the company won network expansion contracts from the provinces of Guangdong, Hunan and Sichuan last year.
Colin Giles, senior vice president of Nokia customer and market operations, China Area, said, ‘Nokia’s market share is now greater than 35% on the Chinese mainland.’
Which is not amazing and is pretty much in line with what everyone was expecting. What will be most interesting will be the coming two years when China will have its own vision transmission standard for mobile phones — 4G — and, of course, the ability to make and market it. Possibly under the Nokia brand. But, equally possibly, under Chinese brand names.
Source: English.eastday.com