Five companies plan to set up cellphone assembly lines
Haier, Foxconn and others seek telecom authority’s permissionKARACHI: After a long wait, Pakistan is finally going to start manufacturing mobile phones locally as five mobile companies are looking to set up their assembly lines in the country. The companies that sought government’s permission to set up assembly lines include Haier, G5, Jio Phone, Mobo Mobiles and Foxconn. Last month, the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) issued guidelines for setting up assembly lines in Pakistan in a bid to step up the pace of digitalisation. China has been the hub of mobile phone manufacturing over the past one decade due to cheap labour. Smuggling is a menace in the mobile phone market at the moment, with even branded mobile companies being brought through illegal channels.
Source: The Express Tribune November 17, 2017 04:18 UTC
