Subject: ELECTROSMOG..........
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 1997 043225 -0600 (CST)
From: "Roy L. Beavers" <rbeavers@mail.llion.org>
To: emfguru@hotmail.com
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Hi everybody:
Can you imagine what this will do (is doing!!!) to the EMF
environment????? At RF and MW frequencies.......
Roy Beavers (EMFguru)
rbeavers@llion.org..............http://www.feb.se/EMF-L/EMF-L.html
................................It is better to light a single candle ...
than to curse the darkness...............................................
03:06 AM ET 11/24/97
FOCUS-Ericsson sees rapid mobile growth
By Chris Johnson
SINGAPORE, Nov 24 (Reuters) - Sweden's giant Ericsson
telecommunications group said on Monday it aimed to build its
share of the world's rapidly growing mobile telephones market.
Johan Siberg, the president of Ericsson Mobile
Communications AB, said his company had just under 20 percent in
money-terms of the world's mobile phone market -- roughly on a
par with Finland's Nokia and Motorola of the
United States.
"The overall handset market has been growing about 50
percent a year (in volume). Maybe it is dropping off a bit now.
In absolute terms, it is still continuing very strong but in
percentage terms maybe it is coming down to 40 percent for next
year," Siberg said in an interview.
"We have been growing faster than the market in the past
years and we have an ambition and a business goal to continue to
grow overall faster than the market," he said.
Ericsson predicts that around 200 million mobile telephones
will be in circulation worldwide by the end of this year, up
from 137 million at the end of 1996.
"We see half a billion subscribers worldwide in the year
2000," Siberg said.
The supply of new phones would increase rapidly, from around
100 million in 1997 to around 200 million in 2000.
Siberg said Ericsson's market share in Asia was higher than
20 percent but declined to give details. An Ericsson official
said recently the company had around 30 percent of the Asian
market excluding Japan, where it still has no presence.
Siberg's division accounts for about a quarter of the
Ericsson group's business.
In October, Ericsson reported sales in its mobile phones and
terminals division of 29.39 billion crowns in the first
nine-months of 1997, compared to 14.39 billion crowns for the
same period a year earlier.
Siberg said the company had seen a slowdown in mobile
telephones sales growth in several Asian countries in the last
few months but thought the problem would be short-lived.
"We have seen orders dropping off in Thailand, in Indonesia,
in the Philippines, in Malaysia too to some extent," he said.
"The most recent (example) is I guess South Korea, which has
been a pretty heavy steam engine in the growth of cellular."
"I think it will be quite a short period," he said. "We have
also seen continued strong growth in China. We see positive
development in Australia and in India, Hong Kong and Singapore."
He said the company expected Asia to become the world's
biggest market for mobile communications in the next few years.
"We foresee that the handset phone market in Asia should
continue quite strongly also next year," he said. "We see Asia
being the strongest growth region in this type of communications
in the next three to four years."
He said around 40 percent of the 200 million new mobile
telephones expected to be shipped in the year 2000 would be to
customers in Asia. Asia bought around 25 percent of mobile
telephones this year, he said.
He said mobile telephone prices would continue to fall over
time by an average of 20 percent a year, but said the company
would cope with this by cutting costs and improving technology.
"Prices are falling. We have seen a trend where the same
level of phone has been dropping in price by some 20 percent (a
year)," he said. "I think that will continue."
-- Singapore Newsroom (65) 870-3080; Fax (65) 776-8112
-- Email: singapore.newsroom@reuters.com
References
1. http://www.infobeat.com/main/cgi/main_merc.cgi?refurl=www.fullstory.com
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