https://qz.com/africa/1374404/chinas-transsion-dominates-africas-phone-market-with-tecno-itel/
The first African facility for the Chinese phone maker Transsion Holdings is tucked away in a nondescript area, down an unpaved road in Ethiopia’s capital Addis Ababa. Here, several hundred employees sit in low plastic stools in neat assembly lines carefully handling various phone accessories. Wearing white, pink, yellow, and light blue lab coats, workers handle parts like microphones, vibrators, and cameras in sequence, run experiments to check for wear resistance and power consumption, and then subject the new headsets to a few durability tests.
A decade after it first set course for Africa, and seven years after the Ethiopian factory opened, Transsion last year became Africa’s top smartphone maker.
Read the full article here
https://qz.com/africa/1374404/chinas-transsion-dominates-africas-phone-market-with-tecno-itel/
The first African facility for the Chinese phone maker Transsion Holdings is tucked away in a nondescript area, down an unpaved road in Ethiopia’s capital Addis Ababa. Here, several hundred employees sit in low plastic stools in neat assembly lines carefully handling various phone accessories. Wearing white, pink, yellow, and light blue lab coats, workers handle parts like microphones, vibrators, and cameras in sequence, run experiments to check for wear resistance and power consumption, and then subject the new headsets to a few durability tests.
A decade after it first set course for Africa, and seven years after the Ethiopian factory opened, Transsion last year became Africa’s top smartphone maker.
Read the full article here
https://qz.com/africa/1374404/chinas-transsion-dominates-africas-phone-market-with-tecno-itel/
