Global mobile phones industry likely to increase to $218 billion by end of 2015

DUBLIN, IRELAND: Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Global Mobile Phones" report to its offering.

Global Mobile Phones industry profile provides top-line qualitative and quantitative summary information including: market size (value and volume 2006-10, and forecast to 2015). The profile also contains descriptions of the leading players including key financial metrics and analysis of competitive pressures within the market. Essential resource for top-line data and analysis covering the Global mobile phones market. Includes market size data, textual and graphical analysis of market growth trends, leading companies and macroeconomic information.

Highlights
* The mobile phone market consists of all analog and digital handsets used for mobile telephony. Market volumes for a given year are defined as the number of shipments to end-users, including both new uptake and renewal purchases. Market values are given at retail selling price (RSP). Any currency conversions used in the creation of this report have been calculated using constant 2010 annual average exchange rates.

* The global mobile phones market had total revenues of $132.5 billion in 2010, representing a CAGR of 10 percent between 2006 and 2010.

* Market consumption volumes increased with a CAGR of 9 percent between 2006 and 2010, to reach a total of 1.3 billion units in 2010.

* The performance of the market is forecast to accelerate, with an anticipated CAGR of 10.5 percent for the five-year period 2010-2015.