Record mobile phone sales in 2002

From Yahoo Biz: " An end-of-year buying spree by consumers lifted sales of mobile phones well above forecasts in 2002, a research group said on Monday, adding that it expects even stronger growth in 2003."

"A total of 423 million handsets were sold to consumers in 2002, up 6 percent from 400 million units in 2001 and several million more than forecast, said Gartner Dataquest, one of the key research groups of the technology industry."