This is an estimate from a consumer goods retailer that sells 500 laptops a month. When LIRNEasia’s teleuse@BOP results come out later this month we will be able to see what the numbers are at the bottom of the pyramid. Perhaps this was one of the questions asked in the census? We tried to propose some questions, but they closed early.
Albert Tung regional director for South Asia at Asus Technology says it is the third best selling notebook brand in the world. In 2011 the group is 12 billion dollars in revenues of which 74 percent will be from notebooks.
Tung says in the short term he is expecting sell 500 units a month in Sri Lanka.
Singer says its top revenue earners are television, refrigerators and sewing machines followed by computers. Though most of the sales are in Sri Lanka’s western province, officials say even notebooks are being sold in areas as remote as Wellawaya.
Peiris said the government’s ‘Gamata IT’ program to take information technology to the village was helping broaden use.
The firm estimates that 18 percent of Sri Lankan households now have a computer.
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abdussamad
That’s pretty good. At least when compared to other south asian countries.
Can the author tell us whether used (obsolete) computers imported from rich countries have flooded the SL market like they have over here in Pakistan? If that is the case they probably make up the bulk of sales and that would explain the rather low monthly sales volume number given by Singer which I assume only sells new PCs.