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Currently, 72 percent of the total demand is made in 9 mobile factories in the country. These include: Samsung, Symphony, Walton, Vivo, Apo, Realmy, Techno, iTel, Infinix Five Star, etc. The remaining 18 percent must be imported. Imported brands include: Xiaomi, Huawei, Nokia, Honor, iPhone, and many other small brands.
Among these brands, Nokia is reported to be interested in establishing factories in Bangladesh. And Huawei’s smartphone has lost market share due to the ban on the use of the Android operating system. Meanwhile, it has been threatened that no US company will supply chipsets to Huawei in the future. As a result, Huawei’s mobile phone in shock. The mobile market share in Bangladesh has shrunk to less than one percent. The remaining brands want to remain dependent on imports, the sources said.
The Minister of Posts and Telecommunications, Mustafa Jabbar, said: “72 percent of the total demand for mobile phones in the country is produced locally. We expect this number to be one hundred percent at a time. “We have gone from an import-dependent country to an export-oriented country,” he said. The country’s mobiles are now exported abroad.
According to various sources, the mobile brand Shaomi has no plans to set up a factory in the country. Market insiders say Shaomi’s current market won’t grow much even if he builds factories. The reason, they said, is that Xiaomi already occupies a large part of the country’s mobile market. Shaomi is dominating the market by importing.
Xiaomi Bangladesh General Manager Zia Uddin Chowdhury said: “Bangladesh has several local and international smartphone brands and the market share is split between all brands. There is a growing demand for our products in the market. “We are working for the fans of Shaomi in Bangladesh and we hope to go further in their support,” he added.
He said that the existence of the gray market (unauthorized entry of mobile phones in the country) is having a direct impact on business and the impact of the gray market is also huge on what the position of an organization in the market will be. Like many other companies, Xiaomi is suffering from the gray market. “Our products start to be sold on the gray market before we start selling,” he said. This situation still continues. “We want to establish ourselves as a strong and leading technology company with the success of smartphones and various other product categories,” he added.
It is known that Nokia wants to establish a mobile manufacturing factory in this country. Because of this, Nokia has stopped importing smartphones this year. Nokia has not imported any smartphones since last January. Nokia is in talks with the government about plans to establish a factory. So Nokia is in a strategic position for factory settings. According to Nokia sources, Nokia wants to manufacture smartphones in the country by opening a factory.
The advent of Nokia feature phones has not stopped even though it has not imported smartphones. Nokia claims that Nokia is now in the top three for feature phones in the country market. HMD Global currently manufactures phones as Nokia’s mobile device maker. The company is also in talks to make mobile phones in Bangladesh. Now waiting for the company: What category of factory is authorized to establish the company?
Although Huawei operates around 190 businesses in Bangladesh, it does not have any device or parts manufacturing facilities in any country outside of China. As a result, Bangladesh is also out of their plan. Those interested do not see any possibility of setting up a mobile phone factory in this country. The issue has been discussed and discussed internally among Huawei Bangladesh officials, but the issue is still there. As a result, Huawei must remain an import-dependent brand.
After the ban on access to Huawei products in the United States and the announcement that Google’s Android service on Huawei devices will not exist in the future, the market for Huawei devices, especially mobile phones, began to fall worldwide. . Bangladesh is no exception, Huawei devices have lost market share in the country. Huawei officials did not want to be identified. An anonymous Huawei official said: “We cannot say whether Huawei’s mobile device sales have increased or decreased.” Officially we have no comments. They also declined to say Huawei’s current market share.
In this sense, the country’s mobile phone importers organization BMPIA says that Huawei is going through a global problem. The company has not yet received authorization from Android. No US company has announced that it will supply chipsets to Huawei. As a result, Huawei has problems with all of this. It cannot enter the Indian and European markets. Huawei Mobile does not have any own product. Bangladesh also does not have a platform of its own. For these reasons, the sales of Huawei smartphones have fallen. At this point, it is not clear if Huawei will establish a mobile factory in the country or if it plans to do so.
Mohammad Mesbah Uddin, deputy secretary of the organization, said: “In the third quarter of this year (July-September), between 26 and 28 lakhs of cell phones were sold in the country. Of this, 72 percent has been done in mobile countries. The remaining mobiles have been imported. He said: “Of the 16 percent of imported mobile phones, Shaomi has a market share of 8 to 9 percent. The rest of mobiles combine all brands. These include Huawei, Nokia, iPhone, Honor, and other smaller brands. He said that Huawei’s market condition in the country is very bad. Its market share is less than one percent (0.6 percent). He mentioned that during the Corona period, where the country sold an average of 9 lakh of phones a month, Huawei mobile sales were 4-5 thousand. At the top of the sales list are the older Huawei models, which are still allowed to use Android.
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