China Telecom to Sell 80 Mln Handsets in 2013
Sarft.net, 1/21/13
China Telecom (NYSE: CHA; 0728.HK) announced today that it intends to sell 80 mln CDMA handsets in 2013, 80% of which will be smartphones.
China Telecom sold 70 mln CDMA terminals in 2012. The operator added more than 70 new CDMA terminal partners during the year, for a total of 483 companies, and increased the number of CDMA terminal offerings by more than 400 devices, reaching a total of 1,540 models.
Editor's Note: For more background on this topic, please see "China Telecom Targets 40 Mln New Mobile Subs in 2013" MD 1/14/13 issue.
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