BEIJING, March 25 (Reuters) – Shipments of foreign-branded mobile phones in China for February, including Apple’s iPhones, fell 7.7% from the same month last year, Reuters calculations based on data released by a government-affiliated research firm on Wednesday showed. The data from the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology showed shipments of foreign-branded phones within […]
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February shipments of foreign-branded phones in China fall 7.7% from a year ago, CAICT data shows
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BEIJING, March 25 (Reuters) – Shipments of foreign-branded mobile phones in China for February, including Apple’s iPhones, fell 7.7% from the same month last year, Reuters calculations based on data released by a government-affiliated research firm on Wednesday showed.
The data from the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology showed shipments of foreign-branded phones within China were at 2.4 million units in February.
Overall phone shipments in China in February were down 14.6% year-on-year to 16.8 million units, according to the data.
(Reporting by Xiuhao Chen and Liz Lee; Editing by Christian Schmollinger)