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Mar. 2, 2008

Last Friday, Motorola reported that more than 45.9 percent of all its cell phone sales last year were made in the United States.

Those sales numbers were higher by 35 percent for the corresponding period the year before.

As far as the American market is concerned, the proportion of its total sales also increased to over 50.8 percent last year, up from 44 percent a year before.

Motorola, now deemed by many as a struggling handset manufacturer, also announced that its top handset client last year was the also struggling carrier Sprint Nextel.

Motorola's top five handset clients represented 42 percent of its total annual sales.

Some of its top clients behind Sprint were AT&T, Verizon Wireless, China Mobile and America Movil.

Outside of the U.S., Motorola said its biggest markets last year were Brazil, China and Mexico.

Although Motorola said that no single customer represented more than 10 percent of its sales last year, it's clear to many now that the cell phone manufacturer has its work cut out for itself, if it wishes to continue to participate in this cut-throat market.

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Source: Motorola.

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