PTA gives license to 16 international companies to assemble mobiles in Pakistan

[AZ1]

Good decision

 

[war&peace]

Excellent... I see PM IK forging ahead with his plan to job creation and FDI after the locally made mobiles are available, increase tax on the imports but also keep a balance so that local manufacturers/assemblers cannot abuse the local market.

 

[313ghazi]

This is a good step. It will increase the number of mobiles in our market, will make jobs in Pakistan and provide a skilled workforce in this industry.

The negative is that this is assembly not manufacture so there will be an increase in imports and i suspect the manufactured products will be for local market, not export. Regardless it is an excellent first step.

What we need now is to encourage those companies to manufacture some components locally and also to try and sell those products abroad as well as in Pakistan. Africa for example is an excellent market, so is Central Asia.

 

[Cash GK]

This is a good step. It will increase the number of mobiles in our market, will make jobs in Pakistan and provide a skilled workforce in this industry.

The negative is that this is assembly not manufacture so there will be an increase in imports and i suspect the manufactured products will be for local market, not export. Regardless it is an excellent first step.

What we need now is to encourage those companies to manufacture some components locally and also to try and sell those products abroad as well as in Pakistan. Africa for example is an excellent market, so is Central Asia.

Assembly is first step to manufacturing

 

[war&peace]

This is a good step. It will increase the number of mobiles in our market, will make jobs in Pakistan and provide a skilled workforce in this industry.

The negative is that this is assembly not manufacture so there will be an increase in imports and i suspect the manufactured products will be for local market, not export. Regardless it is an excellent first step.

What we need now is to encourage those companies to manufacture some components locally and also to try and sell those products abroad as well as in Pakistan. Africa for example is an excellent market, so is Central Asia.

Hey you're mistaken... to manufacture mobiles you need a fully developed semi-conductor industry which is not that easy and will take a long time so it should be developed in parallel. Rest some parts can easily be manufactured locally with some investment in plastics and design centres. However if the locally assembled mobiles are cheaper then these can exported as well and we can find models manufactured / assembled in different countries. But the main and immediate advantage is the job creation.

 

[darksider]

I hope oppo xiaomi Huawei or vivo will come also.
We dont need qmobile type things.

 

[313ghazi]

Hey you're mistaken... to manufacture mobiles you need a fully developed semi-conductor industry which is not that easy and will take a long time so it should be developed in parallel. Rest some parts can easily be manufactured locally with some investment in plastics and design centres. However if the locally assembled mobiles are cheaper then these can exported as well and we can find models manufactured / assembled in different countries. But the main and immediate advantage is the job creation.

I never said it would be easy, but there are things we could do. Plastic casings for example, maybe the micro screws they use to house stuff, maybe the solder used could be Pakistani? Build it up bit by bit. Obviously it all depends on what is available locally.

 

[Yaseen1]

Good news and it will lower mobile prices and increase employment and tax collection by govt

 

[war&peace]

I never said it would be easy, but there are things we could do. Plastic casings for example, maybe the micro screws they use to house stuff, maybe the solder used could be Pakistani? Build it up bit by bit. Obviously it all depends on what is available locally.

There are a lot of industries producing plastics in Pakistan..so it won't be a problem to make those parts. My of uncles owns a company that manufacturers plastics and precision components made from those high quality plastics.

 

[Zhukov]

Why did it took so long? Its Freaking 2019
Now Future Course of Action should be to link the License of Car Manufacturing with 70 80% Local Manufacturing with only very essential parts that have technological constraints to be imported. Or Else Tell them to go back to Japan Korea and China. Better of with locally made rickshaw Cars then Imported ones we cannot afford

 

[Enigma SIG]

Hey you're mistaken... to manufacture mobiles you need a fully developed semi-conductor industry which is not that easy and will take a long time so it should be developed in parallel. Rest some parts can easily be manufactured locally with some investment in plastics and design centres. However if the locally assembled mobiles are cheaper then these can exported as well and we can find models manufactured / assembled in different countries. But the main and immediate advantage is the job creation.

Even Abu Dhabi with all its wealth is getting tired of Global Foundries; not that it had any fabrication in the UAE anyway.

https://www.extremetech.com/computi...tigating-selling-its-share-of-globalfoundries

 

[MystryMan]

it should go beyond just assembly.

 

[war&peace]

Even Abu Dhabi with all its wealth is getting tired of Global Foundries; not that it had any fabrication in the UAE anyway.

https://www.extremetech.com/computi...tigating-selling-its-share-of-globalfoundries

Well, what I see is that the top management of GF is totally clueless and hence it is wise to sell any shares in it so, it is a good business decision by Abu Dhabi. However, what you're implying is not true. On the contrary, the semi-conductor industry is very important moving forward in future.

 

[ps3linux]

Even Abu Dhabi with all its wealth is getting tired of Global Foundries; not that it had any fabrication in the UAE anyway.

https://www.extremetech.com/computi...tigating-selling-its-share-of-globalfoundries

Global foundries management is as stupid as it gets by being in California or being owned by mubadla doesn't makes a company best performing its management/shareholders must have an understanding of the business, a vision for future and its offerings should be competitive, GF has been losing to TSMC for a long time, GF revenue was 5.5 billion dollars in 2016 as compared to TSMC which had a revenue of $30 odd billion.

Every one who needs to know, knows GF is shit because its management and owners are idiots.

 

[SingHee]

When you have a market of nearly a quarter of a billion people, importing finished products should be avoided in most industries.