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First 'Made in Bangladesh' Smartphone Primo E8i by Walton hits the market

Congrats to BD.

Indian market requires better specs for middle class and thus only plants by foreign companies are viable at the moment.
In that sense, there are mutiple "made in India" phones.
 
Congrats to BD.

Indian market requires better specs for middle class and thus only plants by foreign companies are viable at the moment.
In that sense, there are mutiple "made in India" phones.

Please do share. I am curious what those 'better specs for middle class' are (and if they are somehow 'different' from specs required by our middle class).

That company (Walton) makes a whole range of phones, upmarket to downmarket.
 
It's a basic phone meant to be affordable.

Yes, that's what I meant. 3500 Tk is not much for even a Rickshaw-puller or garments worker, if they save up for few months. Very good move by Walton to first launch the cheapest ones to capture the low-end-income market. The high-end buyers are readily available and selling to them would not be a problem.
 
At today's rate, its 41 CHF. That's equal to the cost of 2 medium pizzas I eat here in a week.
questions being.. are those two medium pizzas cooked well done or regular? And are they pan or regular?
 
So ARM has a fab facility in Bangladesh now?

LOL at these clowns thinking this is somehow "made" in BD and not assembled piecemeal like their Dayang-Runner or Walton-xyz chicom bike kits (that still combined only get 14% of BD motorbike market lol).

The double lol is that Walton still hasnt released their financial statement after all the brouhaha about massive growth and exports and what not. Its been 2+ years...

Congrats to BD.

Indian market requires better specs for middle class and thus only plants by foreign companies are viable at the moment.
In that sense, there are mutiple "made in India" phones.

Its pretty much the same model in both countries. India is just lot larger and has JV clause in lot of items. Walton is pretty much doing defacto JV assembly as well, and selling 10 - 100 times less per capita than India (but better than big fat zero normally found in BD). One can look at any modern consumption stat of BD compared to India to see why.
 
Its pretty much the same model in both countries. India is just lot larger and has JV clause in lot of items. Walton is pretty much doing defacto JV assembly as well, and selling 10 - 100 times less per capita than India (but better than big fat zero normally found in BD). One can look at any modern consumption stat of BD compared to India to see why.

@Nilgiri type try to feel "i am flying" "titanic" moment just with cheap dhoti float - inflated by air from their own behind. Its cheap and it stinks and far from the truth and that is how we like indians to be. FYI, Walton is not a public company sure does not need to disclose its financial statements in public.
 
@Nilgiri type try to feel "i am flying" "titanic" moment just with cheap dhoti float - inflated by air from their own behind. Its cheap and it stinks and far from the truth and that is how we like indians to be. FYI, Walton is not a public company sure does not need to disclose its financial statements in public.

He's just an inferiority complex-ridden frustrated soul, story of just another dark skinned South Indian in India.
 
Absolutely - forget India, let Dada show some phones made in West Bengal. :lol:

Say what - you don't have anything? Why - you guys are expert at building castles in the sky, could have built a few cellphone factories while you were at it. :-)

দুইদিনের বৈরাগী, ভাতেরে কয় অন্ন।

Amateur trolling attempt by noobs.

Bangladeshis were vigorously using Motorola phones installed in cars in the 80's when India had no cellphone network (and no cellphones) to speak of even. Indians didn't even start using them until they got cheap enough. :lol:

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Indians came to Dhaka in the late 90's with cellphone-network proposal thinking they could sell us one by 'Dalali'. Then Citycell-owner Murshed Khan told them to march back to New Delhi because we already had 70% coverage by all networks in Bangladesh. :lol:

And for your information - these phones are everyman phones made for common people on the streets. In Bangladesh even rickshaw pullers have had cellphones since the 90's. First bring a made-in-India cellphone (not cobbled together from Chinese components) then come talk.



Do you know what a FAB is and how much it costs to set up one? You have any idea what is involved?

ফ্যাব কি গাছে ধরে? Do FABs grow on trees?

Even India does not have one, in spite of its 1 plus Billion people market (forget about the lone research one you have, it doesn't commercially produce anything). Your companies are reluctant to invest in one. Because most of them are basically fly-by-night outfits out to make a quick buck, even the Ambanis.



If it takes a GSM chip then the only carrier it might work in - is TMobile. Those TMobile phones do take GSM chips and some people have taken these to Bangladesh and used them AFAIK.



Cell Phone Networks Started In Pakistan Back In 1991 When Two Licenses Were Awarded.India Cell Phone Started In 1995.
 
Cell Phone Networks Started In Pakistan Back In 1991 When Two Licenses Were Awarded.India Cell Phone Started In 1995.

Bangladesh first cell service started in 1989 in Dhaka with AMPS analog technology. Expansion of connected cell towers nationwide were eased by cell companies (especially GrameenPhone) leasing a Railway Fibre-Optic link setup in 1985- run between all railway junctions. Bandwidth for that time was unlimited because there was no data traffic to speak of. The first generation AMPS cellphones (as opposed to radio-enabled car-installed phones used in Bangladesh prior to this) was the Motorola Dynatac,

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Later the Startac was popular locally, starting in the mid 90's,

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Bangladesh Telecom Limited (BTL) was awarded a license in 1989 to operate cellular, paging, and other wireless communication networks.

Then in 1990 Hutchison Bangladesh Telecom Limited (HBTL) was incorporated in Bangladesh as a joint venture between BTL and Hutchison Telecommunications (Singapore). HBTL began commercial operation in Dhaka using the AMPS mobile technology in 1993 and became the 2nd cellular operator in South Asia - closely following after Sri Lanka's Celltell (which used older technology called TACS), established in 1989.

Later that year Pacific Motors bought 50% of BTL. By 1996 HBTL was renamed as Pacific Bangladesh Telecom Limited (PBTL) and launched the brand name 'Citycell Digital' to market its cellular products.

Right now Citycell is the smallest of all Mobile phone service providers in Bangladesh.
 
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