Motorola is aiming to take a quarter of China's handset market in the near term as it hones a newly built national retail network, an executive, quoted by a Reuters report, said.
The Reuters report said the company now had about 30,000 retailers selling its handsets in China, triple the number it had 18 months ago, according to Michael Tatelman, general manager for Motorola's mobile devices division for North Asia.
Its current share has grown rapidly over that period as it built the network, climbing from just 11% at the beginning of 2005 to 21% in May, according to industry data.
"Based on what we have on the ground today, we ought to be able to achieve 25% share in China in the not-too-distant future," Tatelman told Reuters in an interview, as the company opened its first flagship China store in Shanghai.