Aussie smartphone market recession-proof, says IDC

摘要

IDC says Australia's mobile phone market declined 16.1 percent year-on-y'ear to 2.98 million units in 2008 but the converged device (smartphone) segment bucked the trend, growing by 7.6 percent.rn"The majority of the year-on-year decline in Q4 2008 was due to the unsustainable boom caused by Telstra's CDMA to Next G migration in Q4 2007, the actual effect of the slowing economy is less significant at this stage," said Mark Novosel, market analyst, Telecommunications at IDC.