Size of China’s Cell Phone Gray Market

As of today, the number of cell phones shipped by the gray market in China constitutes 13% of the legitimate cell phone market. And the bad news is that it has been growing massively and will continue to do so. Here are the volumes of gray market mobile phones that have been shipped in the past years and are estimated to be shipped over the next few years from China.

2005 : 37 million
2008 : 101 million
2009 : 145 million
2012 : 192 million
2013 : 176 million