BEIJING – Mobile phone shipments to China amounted to 249 million devices in the first nine months of the year, a year-on-year increase of 10. 2%, according to the Knowledge of the Chinese Academy of Information and Communication Technology (CAICT). In September, the country’s cellphone shipments fell 8. 1% year-on-year to 21. 44 million units, said CAICT, a think-year institute of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. A total of 58 new models were introduced last month, down 3. 3 from the previous year, according to the data. The country’s domestic brands continued to dominate cell phone shipments last…