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Biz: Phone shipments fall in September

China's smartphone shipments fell 5.7 percent year-on-year in September to 34.7 million units, according to data from the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology. Last month, smartphones made up 95.7 percent of all mobile phone shipments in the country, according to a report from the research institute at the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. Overall mobile phone shipments dropped 7.1 percent year-on-year to 36.2 million units, but jumped 17.4 percent month-on-month. From January to September, the country's smartphone shipments slipped 4.2 percent from a year earlier to 275 million units, the report showed.

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