Sri Lanka ships close to 3 million mobile handsets in CY 2013

March, 27, 2014

COLOMBO, SRI LANKA & GURGAON, INDIA: The Sri Lanka mobile phones market recorded sales (unit shipments) of over 0.8 million units in 4Q (October-December) 2013. This was reported in the Sri Lanka Mobile Handsets Market Review, 4Q 2013, March 2014 release published today by premier IT, Telecoms, Semiconductor & Electronics, Government & Public Sector and Lifesciences market intelligence and advisory firm CyberMedia Research.

In the overall Sri Lanka mobile handsets market, Nokia emerged as the leader with a 23.8 percent share, followed by Micromax at second position with 21.4 percent and Samsung at third position with 11.9 percent, in terms of sales (unit shipments) during 4Q 2013.

Smartphone sales (shipments) touched 0.12 million units in Sri Lanka during 4Q 2013 and 0.45 million for CY 2013. During 4Q 2013 Samsung emerged as the leader in the smartphones segment with a 21.2 percent share followed by Huawei with 19.6 percent and E-Tel at third place with a 16.1 percent shipments share.

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