While Nokia Corp. is the hands-down leader for mobile handsets shipped in the United States, the handset giant only holds a 7-percent market share for CDMA phones sold in the country last year, according to the recently released Gartner-Dataquest Full Year 2000 report.
Nokia holds a 39.1-percent market share, with 28.6 million shipments in 2000. Motorola came in second with 13.9-percent market share and 10.6 million shipments and Ericsson Inc. fell to third place with a 10.8-percent market share and 7.9 million phones shipped. Audiovox, Kyocera, Samsung, LGIC and Mitsubishi rounded out the top eight. According to Dataquest 73.3 million mobile handsets were shipped in the United States in 2000. Of those 73.3 million phones shipped, 65.7 million, or nearly 90 percent, were digital models.
Nokia also dominated digital handset sales at 37.9 percent with almost 24.9 million shipments. In this category, Ericsson’s 12.1-percent market share topped Motorola’s 11.9-percent market share.
On a different note, Audiovox was the top U.S. provider of CDMA handsets, claiming a 20.9-percent market share with 6.1 million CDMA handsets shipped. Kyocera tailed closely with 20.8-percent market share and Samsung fell into third place with 19.7 percent. Ironically, Nokia was sixth, behind Motorola and LGIC. According to Dataquest, 29.2 million CDMA handsets were shipped in the nation in 2000.
