The line graph shows the percentage of market share of three producers of mobile phones over a period of 10 years starting from 1994.
Overall, it is clear that there are significant changes in the figure for Motorola, Nokia, Sone Ericsson. The proportion of sales of Nokia witnessed an upward trend, while the opposite was true for Motorola’s figure. The lowest figure can be seen in the market share of Sony Ericsson.
In 1994, the percentage of sales of Motorola stood at around 32%, the highest figure that year. In the same year, the figure for Nokia was about 21%, whereas that of Sony Ericsson was lower at 11%. Between 1994 and 1998, the percentage of mobile phone sales that manufactured by Motorola decreased rapidly from 32% to 23%. By contrast, the figure for Nokia fluctuated between 20% and 24%, eventually surpassed that of Motorola at 23% in 1998. During the same period, the proportion of Sony Ericsson sales experienced a slight increase from 11% to approximately 15%.
Over the next six years, the market share of Nokia grew sharply, and peaked at 37%, which is the highest figure in the chart, in 2002. From 1998 to 2004, the percentage of Motorola and Sony Ericsson sales witnessed a minor drop to 18% and 10% respectively.