Cell phone shipments in fiscal 2008 dived 30.1 percent from the previous year to 34.64 million units amid the economic downturn, the sharpest drop on record and the first fall in four years, an industry body said Wednesday.
The percentage of the fall was the sharpest since the Japan Electronics and Information Technology Industries Association started compiling relevant data in fiscal 1992.
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