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Huawei’s Mobile Handset Business Still Has Some Life Left in It… Pretty Much Only in South Africa Though

by Eric Olander
Source: Statcounter

Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei held on to a respectable 25% share of the South African market last year despite the fact that it no longer sells handsets with Google’s Android operating system.

Huawei was nonetheless a distant second to Samsung, who dominates the SA market with 47.6% of mobile device sales. Apple came in third with just under 16%, according to data analytics firm Statcounter.

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