The Need For Phone Manufacturing In Paksitan
Guest Post By Aamir Attaa
Pakistan Telecom industry has now matured enough to gain over 85 million cellular subscribers. We can see cellular companies expanding their networks to explore un-served regions; which gives a clear indication of reaching their limits in urban areas. This may result into a steep decline in foreign direct investments coming into country.
Until now, we were entertained well by cellular companies, who employed huge workforce, brought in investments and made good amount of contribution towards our national economy through taxes.
But now, when we see revenues coming from cellular companies have poised, Government of Pakistan should un-turn new possibilities to bring in the investment into country. Maybe we are already late, but now we can’t delay any further in pulling mobile phone manufacturers to setup manufacturing plants in Pakistan. These manufacturing plants will not only meet our local needs but they may also earn the country few bucks through mobile phone exports and save valuable foreign exchange used for imports of handsets.
Obviously these landmarks can’t be achieved in days, but the regulator and the government have to follow a strategy that might attract mobile phone manufacturers to come into Pakistan. We can follow Indian Model, where they have mobile phone manufacturing facilities of almost all mainstream handset manufactures.
Pakistan’s weak economic infrastructure, poor supplies, heavy taxes and discouraging policies are never going to allow any handset manufacture to invest in Pakistan. On other hands, India cut import duties and corporate tax rates, new highways, rail lines, and airports were built, furthermore, they gave the investors a sense of security and consequently Nokia, Motorola, Samsung, LG Electronics, ZTE, Huawei, Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson, and so many others got there and harvested the fruits of low cost labor and other added benefits of Indian land.
Once deployed, handset plant comes with a package that can do wonders to any economy, as they bring in other industries along, such as, component manufacturers, circuit designers, accessories, packaging, software industry to cater mobile software requirements, R&D and so on.
So the roadmap is there, requirement is there, and possibilities are there…what we can do is to get them in quick time to further strengthen telecom industry in specific and economy in general.
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I agree we must encourage R&D in the country otherwise the future is real tough for Pakistan.
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Pakistan Telecom industry has now matured enough to gain over 85 million cellular subscribers. We can see cellular companies expanding their networks to explore un-served regions; which gives a clear indication of reaching their limits in urban areas. …
Not only does pakistan should start manufacturing mobiles sets buut there should be atleast 1 pakistani cellular service provider…
this hsould have been done years back when the growth wasn’t there.
wtf they plan? FDI in telecom sector wasn’t brought due to efforts of gov. it only came cos economic conditions naturally were quite favourable for the industry (low tele density, high oppurtunities for growth, less competition) and hence such investment would have come no matter what.
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