Motorola aims for quarter of China handset market
July 14th, 2006 - Posted in MotorolaMotorola Inc., the world’s number two cellphone maker, is aiming to take a quarter of the China handset market in the near term as it hones a newly built national retail network, an executive said on Thursday.
The company now has about 30,000 retailers selling its handsets in China, triple the number it had 18 months ago, Michael Tatelman, general manager for Motorola’s mobile devices division for North Asia, said.
Its current share has grown rapidly over that period as it built the network, climbing from just 11 percent at the beginning of 2005 to 21 percent in May, according to industry data.