Gartner: Japan performed extremely well in 3Q

According to Gartner, the handset sales in Japan in 3Q07 were 21.8% up from a year ago, resulting in 13.1 million mobile phones being sold. Tokyo-based Gartner’s principal analyst for mobile communications research Nahoko Mitsuyama commented this as follows: “Japan performed extremely well this quarter, exhibiting one of the strongest performances worldwide. Sales to end users exceeded sales to the distribution channel by about one million units and excessive inventory that was built up in the second quarter of 2007 was successfully reduced in the third quarter.” I believe that mobile TV handset models contributed most to the increased demand for new phones.

Source: Gartner