Engineer Tamer El-Gamal, director of the company announced Nokia in EgyptOn his official Facebook page, he announced the company’s first smartphone bearing the “Made in Egypt” slogan.
and initiativeEgypt manufactures electronicsWith the aim of advancing the electronics industry as one of the biggest pillars of the growth of the Egyptian economy, by contributing to increasing or doubling Egyptian exports, striving to reduce imports of electronic devices to the local market, and creating job opportunities for hundreds of thousands of engineers and technicians.
Last October, El-Gamal announced the manufacture of the first feature phone for Nokia, bearing the “Made in Egypt” logo.
Last October, Samsung Electronics Egypt launched the first batch of locally manufactured Samsung phones at the company’s factory in Beni Suef Governorate, bearing the slogan “Made in Egypt.” The locally manufactured phones are sold at the company’s branches and two authorized agents, provided that larger quantities are successively offered. of phones in the Egyptian market to meet the demand for the company’s phones.
The Information Technology Industry Development Agency (ITIDA), affiliated to the Ministry of Communications, and the Chinese electronics company, OPPO, signed a memorandum of understanding last September; To establish a mobile phone factory in Egypt, with a production capacity of 4.5 million units annually, and with investments of regarding $30 million, to join 10 other factories owned by the company around the world, and for this factory to be a regional hub for the company to manufacture and export to the Arab and African markets.
The Ministry of Communications and Information Technology has succeeded in attracting more foreign direct investments in all sectors, especially the manufacture of mobile phones, and benefiting from the Egyptian market as a regional hub for manufacturing, through which it is possible to access the African and Arab markets. Procedures for establishing new factories, with investments of $75 million, with a production capacity of 16 million mobile devices annually, providing 3,200 job opportunities.
Dr. Amr Talaat, Minister of Communications and Information Technology, witnessed the signing ceremony of a cooperation agreement between HMD and Etisalat for Advanced Industries, EAI, in Egypt, last August, with the aim of manufacturing one million mobile devices of different models, between feature phones and smart phones. And that during the current year with the doubling of production during the coming period.
The agreement was signed by Tamer El-Gamal, General Manager of HMD Company in Egypt, and Ahmed Abu Auf, Managing Director of Etisalat for Advanced Industries (EAI). In the presence of Alain Lejeune, Head of Operations at HMD Global OY, which owns the Nokia brand, Won Shang, Executive Vice President, Products, Eng. Connection to cutting-edge industries EAI and HMD.
