3G Phones Sales Jump in August

According to Seeking Alpha, the Japan Electronics and Information Technology Industries Association [JEITA], stated mobile phone shipments in Japan has climbed 39.1 percent to hit a total of 4.2 million units in August. “The industry group attributed greatly the rise in the shipments to a surge in the number of handsets able to receive digital terrestrial television broadcasts. The report said that shipments of 3G handsets climbed 50.7 percent on year to 4 million units, compared to shipments of 2G handsets went down 93 pct to 17,000 units.”

However, looking at the chart Here, it seems that 3G model shipments increased 150% compared to Aug. 2006. We expect to get the full details, via CIAJ, sometime in the coming weeks and will update.