TALLINN - With new models emerging on a rapidly expanding market, Estonian mobile phone operators Elion and Radiolinja said that sales showed vigorous growth in the first half of this year, with clients particularly preferring collapsible keyboard phones.
"In the first half of the year sales of mobile phones grew by about 40 percent against the same period last year," Ain Parmas, Elion Enteprises media relations head, told the Baltic News Service.
The increasing number of mobile-phone users and operators' attractive offers have fueled growth, Parmas added.
"Without mentioning concrete producers and models, I would say that handsets with a color screen and camera, as well as those with a collapsible keyboard have been mainly gathering popularity," Parmas said.
"Samsung and Siemens phones were added to our stock this year, with their sales increasing by more than 100 percent in the six months against the same period last year," Radiolinja Estonia's press officer, Regina Salmu, said. "By the end of the year we forecast an increase of at least 75 percent against last year in terms of numbers."
Tele2 board member Ullar Jaaksoo agreed that the sale of mobile phones was going well this year.
"There haven't been any significant changes compared with last year. In terms of handsets we have always sold more non-Nokia ones on the market than are sold on the market on the average and no significant changes have taken place in that respect either," he said.
