Sales of Smart Phones Up 42% Since 2010

Smart phone sales to end users reached 115 million units in the third quarter of 2011, up 42 percent from the third quarter of 2010. Sequentially, smar tphone sales slowed to seven percent growth from the second quarter of 2011 to the third quarter of 2011.

Smart phone sales accounted for 26 percent of all mobile phone sales, growing only marginally from 25 percent in the previous quarter. Smart phone Sales Increased 42 Percent

In many ways, you can say that "smart phones" now are a mobile service provider's "lead offer." It might have been "voice" in the past. For fixed networks, broadband and video have become the lead offers.