Domestic shipments of mobile phones rose 22.4 percent in January from a year earlier to 3.77 million units for the fourth straight monthly increase, the Japan Electronics and Information Technology Industries Association said Tuesday.
An association official attributed the rise, which includes car phones, to growing replacement demand for mobile phones with built-in cameras as mobile phone service providers introduce new models.
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