PRESS COVERAGE

Published: February 11 2008

Excerpt from the full article written by Microscope's Christopher Walton.

The problem for UK resellers is that mobile device shipments are forecast to shrink in 2008. Brad Rees, managing director at mobile communications consultancy Mediacells, says approximately 28 million mobile device units were sold in the UK in 2006 and that was nothing compared with 2007 when 30 million mobile devices were sold — one for every two people in the country. 2008 promises to be less than a banner year, irrespective of fears on recession or the squeeze of the credit crunch.

"In 2008 those device sales are going to come down and we will finish the year with sales in the region of 25 million. The reason for the fairly substantial downturn in projected figures is the amount of 18 to 24-month operator contracts sold that are really starting to kick in now,"

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