Foreign-branded phone shipments in China more than doubled on year in Nov, CAICT data shows

BEIJING, Dec 25 (Reuters) – Shipments of foreign-branded mobile phones, including Apple's iPhones, rose 128.4% in China in November from the same month last year, according to Reuters calculations based on data released by a government-affiliated research firm on Thursday. Overall phone shipments in China were up 1.9% year-on-year to 30.16 million units in November, data from the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology showed. Shipments of foreign-branded phones recorded 6.93 million units. (Reporting by Beijing Newsroom; Editing by William Mallard)

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