BEIJING, May 26 (Reuters) – Shipments of foreign-branded mobile phones in China for April, including Apple’s iPhones, were up 1.8% from the same month last year, Reuters calculations based on data released by a government-affiliated research firm on Tuesday showed. The data from the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology showed shipments of foreign-branded […]
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April shipments of foreign-branded phones in China up 1.8% Y/Y, CAICT data shows
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BEIJING, May 26 (Reuters) – Shipments of foreign-branded mobile phones in China for April, including Apple’s iPhones, were up 1.8% from the same month last year, Reuters calculations based on data released by a government-affiliated research firm on Tuesday showed.
The data from the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology showed shipments of foreign-branded phones within China were at 3.59 million units in April.
Overall phone shipments in China last month were up 2.8% year-on-year to 25.73 million units, according to the data.
(Reporting by Liz Lee, Yukun Zhang and Shi Bu; Editing by Ros Russell)