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North America Handset Shipments Hit A Record High in Q4’14 Thanks to Apple’s Bigger iPhones

by Neil Mawston | Feb 06, 2015

According to the latest report ‘VENDOR SHARE: North America Handset Vendor Marketshare: Q4 2014’ from our  Wireless Device Strategies (WDS) research service, mobile phone shipments improved by +27% annually to a record high in North Americaduring the fourth quarter of 2014. Apple's new and bigger iPhone models dominated the quarter, while ZTELG and TCL-Alcatel each made strong annual gains. LTE volumes continued to grow robustly, driven by Apple, Samsung, ZTE and others.

Our extensive report contains quarterly handset shipments and marketshare by 2G / 3G / 4G technologies for the top 20 vendors in the USA and Canada from 2004 to Q4 2014. It is a valuable tool for all stakeholders who want to track the influential US and Canada markets. The report is available here to our paid clients.

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