Telephone Shilpa Sangstha or TSS[2] is a government owned telecoms company in Bangladesh.[3] It launched the first laptop made/assembled in Bangladesh, Doel, in 2011.[4][5] It also manufactures analogue phones,[6] smartphones, and regular cell phones in Bangladesh.[7]
Production
In fiscal 2016-17 the TSS assembled 63,245 laptops and managed to sell 58,750 units.
In fiscal 2016-17, 4,495 units were sold; in fiscal 2014-15, it was 4,550 units.
It started off with a laptop retailing at Tk 10,000, which Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina unveiled on 11 October 2011.[8]
References
- Brief History of TSS Telephone Shilpa Sangstha, retrieved 2 October 2016^
- Government's laptop project crash lands Dhaka Tribune, retrieved 2 October 2016^
- Cheap Laptops: It's Bangladesh's Turn pcworld.com, retrieved 2 October 2016^
- Anbarasan Ethirajan. Bangladesh unveils $130 'Doel' laptops BBC News, 11 October 2011, retrieved 2 October 2016^
- Bangladesh: The next hardware destination? Dhaka Tribune Dhaka Tribune, retrieved 2 October 2016^
- Our own laptop The Daily Star, 14 October 2011, retrieved 2 October 2016^
- OK Mobile launches mobile TV app The Daily Star, 29 August 2014, retrieved 2 October 2016^
- Telephone Shilpa Sangstha stages a comeback The Daily Star, 27 December 2019^