The Taiwanese Basic/Feature Phone Industry, 2Q 2008

Due to the economic adversity in the United States and the already high mobile phone penetration rate in Western Europe, mobile phone growth in the mature markets such Europe and the United States were significantly weak in the first half of 2008. In other words, the slackened economy worldwide has affected mobile phone sales performance and a reduction in consumers' disposable income has led to a decrease in consumers' intention to replace existing mobile phones.