The mobile phone market in Indonesia has accounted an unprecedented growth as number of mobile shipment in the third quarter takes a dramatic increase, having
surpassed 12 million units from second quarter’s 10 million units set on record.
In an IDC report, said growth represented a year-to-year growth of 68%, in which one of the factors seen to have contributed such a high level growth is due to large volume shipments of low-end mobile devices in the region.
The smartphone market, on other hand, maintained a positive growth at 5% quarterly and 11% to the total of mobile phone shipment. IDC, in a report, is expecting for a 68% growth in Indonesia’s smartphone market by year 2012 with the coming of several low-cost smartphones.
The country’s sales chart revealed Nokia, Cross, and Nexian in top 3 record breakers among feature phones; while RIM, Samsung, and HTC comprised the top leaders for smartphones.

