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Gray market handsets steady to 2015

The number of gray market handsets sold across AME will remain steady through 2015 but the sharp increase in legitimate handset sales during that period will reduce the percentage of gray market handset units sold in AME to 13 per cent, according to a new report from Pyramid Research (www.pyr.com).
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