Monday, March 10, 2008; Posted: 12:49 AM
"We will continue doing mobile phone handset business with NTT DoCoMo, although we will review our product development plans. We cannot disclose details of the planned review," said a spokesman at Sony Ericsson.
He was responding to a report in the Nikkei business daily earlier Monday that Sony Ericsson will stop manufacturing mobile phones for NTT DoCoMo by the end of this year to focus on overseas customers amid a saturated domestic market.
Sony will terminate its product development for NTT DoCoMo after rolling out new models this summer, the report said.
Sony Ericsson plans to keep NTT DoCoMo as a customer by procuring handsets from other Japanese manufacturers and selling them under the brand of Sony Ericsson, the Nikkei report said.
The spokesman said Sony Ericsson will continue developing and manufacturing mobile phone handsets for KDDI Corp's "au" mobile phone services. KDDI is the second largest carrier in the local market.
Sony Ericsson boosted global sales to 103 million units in 2007, up 40 percent from 2006, holding nearly 9 percent of the global market and ranking fourth in the world. But in Japan, the company is ranked sixth, forecasting sales of just 3.6 million units in fiscal 2007, according to the Nikkei.
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