Sanday Chongo Kabange, AfricaNews reporter in Lusaka, Zambia, photo: Olivier Nyirubugara
Starting from August, handsets for Malaysian cell phone manufacturer, M.Mobile will be produced in Zambia. An official told Network World that M.Mobile would be investing more than $3 million in the plant, which will assemble units for local and regional markets.
The first targeted market is the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (Comesa) and the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC).
The Zambian M.Mobile plant will be capable of producing 50,000 and 70,000 mobile phones per month.The announcement is huge news for Zambia as it will mean the country’s first mobile phone manufacturing plant.
Aside from that, M.Mobile was also the first plant in Malaysia and the world’s first Muslim-owned mobile phone R&D and marketing company. The company’s website lists its missions as wanting to “launch the world’s first and only company providing Islamic Mobile Phone Solutions, develop and market a full range of innovative, attractive, reliable and quality Islamic mobile communication products and to be the platform through which Islamic mobile phone technology is transferred into Muslim countries”.
M.Mobile currently operates under it’s parent company Kosmo Technology which acquired a 30 percent stake in the company two years ago.
