Mobile phone sales to grow by 8.42% a year to 2011 - study

The world mobile terminal market is forecast to grow by 8.42 percent per year to 1.43 billion units in 2011 from 1.14 billion units in 2007 and 987 million a year earlier, according to Idate. The lower growth (versus 15 percent in 2007) is attributed to the mobile market becoming increasingly saturated in the middle-class population in emerging markets.