ZTE opens handset assembly plant in Ethiopia
By Ben Robinson on Friday, September 12th, 2008 at 2:37 PM PST In Hardware, ZTE
China’s infrastructure and handset maker, ZTE, is going to start assembling devices in Ethiopia, after signing a $5.2mn with the “Organization for Rehabilitation and Development of Amhara (TIRET)”
This new plant will apparently be able to produce 3000-4500 mobile devices per day – or around 1.5m units per year, for those of you who prefer annual figures. It would seem that there is a real demand for Mobiles in Ethiopia, with recent shortages and planned upgrades pointing to a serious requirement from those that live there.
In a world where every bit of “industrialization” news features development inside China, it’s interesting to see an operation being set up by the Chinese, in another country that is looking to modernise.
[Via: Cellular News]
