ISLAMABAD – Samsung, Huawei, and Nokia wish to start manufacturing phonesin Pakistan.
According to a local newspaper, the government has decided to formulate anew mobile phone manufacturing policy.
M/s Samsung, M/s Huawei and M/s Nokia want to start manufacturing inPakistan due to lower labor wages compared to China, well-informed sourcesin EDB told the newspaper*.*
The labor pay in China is very high, i.e., CNY 5,000 (PKR 105,000) forunskilled and CNY 20,000 (PKR 420,000) for the technical workforce, whereaslabor and skilled workforce are available in Pakistan at very lowremuneration.
They further stated that the mobile devices consist of almost 60 sub-partsmanufactured by vendor industry/secondary suppliers. The mobilemanufacturing plant costs around Rs. 2 billion.
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According to the report, this was disclosed at a meeting of Pakistan MobileManufacturers and representatives of Federal Board of Revenue (FBR),Ministry of Information Technology and Telecom, Pakistan TelecommunicationAuthority (PTA) and EDB held on January 31, 2019.
Noman Khalid, Director PTA, informed the participants that due toInternational Mobile Equipment Identity (IMEI) registration the localmanufacturing of mobile devices has increased.
