Caretaker Federal Minister for Information Technology and Telecommunication Dr Umar Saif has said that the government wants to decrease the import of mobile phones by manufacturing cheap and quality mobile phones in Pakistan.
In a statement issued on Wednesday, Dr Saif said that the ministry is committed to promoting the IT and telecom sectors of Pakistan. He said that Pakistan is the seventh major mobile phone market in the world and currently 190 million mobile phones are in use in Pakistan.
Dr. Saif said that manufacturing mobile phones locally will not only create job opportunities but also help promote the hi-tech industry in Pakistan.
It is pertinent to mention here that local manufacturing plants have manufactured/assembled 6.07 million mobile handsets during the first five months (January-June) of 2023 compared to 0.53 million imported commercially.
The local manufacturing plants manufactured/assembled 1.19 million mobile handsets during June 2023 compared to 0.12 million imported commercially, as per official data.
Bring Google Pixels in Pakistan. Chinese and Korean brands are dominating the market. We need more diversity. Kindly convince Google to bring Pixel phones in Pakistan ( as they are best in class) and gets direct Android updates from Google.
there is a difference between manufacturering and assembling. which part of phones can we locally produce? none. we can just assemble and are making it sound like we are going to make a breakthrough in the nanotech space. bnda taraki nhe kr skta agar apni aukaat zehan m na rakhe. everything is a marketing shenanigan here
MY Dear Something is better than nothing.
iPhone assembly, high speed internet, aur PayPal n Amazon pr focus karo.
So we produce low quality mobiles. Nothing new here.
This person is totally lost his mind.