BAKU, Azerbaijan, April 17
By Tamilla Mammadova - Trend:
The number of mobile phones in Georgia exceeds 5 million, and the number of subscribers using mobile Internet is 59 percent of the population, Trend reports citing Georgian National Communications Commission (GNCC).
According to statistics, the number of Apple brand smartphones has reached 725,749, and the number of phones running on the Android operating system exceeds 2.8 million. Of this number, the number of Samsung brand phones is 1.92 million, Huawei - 517,675, Lenovo - 517,671.
Meanwhile, in the first two months of 2020, smartphone imports to Georgia increased by 33 percent year-on-year and amounted to $33.5 million.
General statistics for 2019 show that Georgians buy most smartphones from one of the global centers for wholesale mobile sales - the UAE. Hong Kong, one of the centers of global production of mobile phones, is also among the leaders in importing smartphones into Georgia.
Mobile phones to Georgia in the first two months of 2020 were exported by the United Arab Emirates in the amount of $98.6 million; by Russia - $30.5 million; Hong Kong - $24.1 million; Czech Republic - $20.1 million; China - $10.1 million; the Netherlands - $7.5 million; Sweden - $2 million; Great Britain - $1.9 million; the US - $1.9 million; Germany - $1.8 million; Switzerland - $1.7 million and France - $1.6 million.
The rating includes countries, from which the imports exceeded $1 million.
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