YOKOHAMA – Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. missed its goal of capturing 25 percent of Japan’s cellular phone market because of its late introduction of camera phones, the head of the company’s mobile communications unit said.
Panasonic brand cell phones finished 2002 with less than 20 percent of the domestic market, Yasuo Katsura said in a recent interview.
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