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Chinese tech companies are dominating in Africa:<\/b> Tecno, a phonemaker owned by Shenzhen-based Transsion, has become one of the most well regarded brands in Africa thanks to the Chinese company\u2019s commitment to the market, David Pilling writes in the Financial Times<\/a>. Unlike its Western competitors, Transsion has built cheaper phones specifically for lower-income African economies, providing a longer battery life, dual SIM capacity, and local language options. The company also sees Africa as a potential manufacturing hub, and has opened two factories in Ethiopia. All this has seen Tecno rise to become the fifth most respected brand on the continent<\/a>, ahead of companies we usually think of as being dominant in the smartphone space, such as Apple and Google.<\/p>\n

This is part of a wider trend that is seeing Chinese companies take the lead role in African telecoms. <\/b>Tech giants Huawei and ZTE are providing the infrastructure and networking capacity<\/a> almost on their own, while Alibaba\u2019s e-payment platform Alipay is looking to expand<\/a> on the continent. Transsion\u2019s success is partly due to the reluctance from Western companies to engage with African countries as potential markets. As Pilling notes, there is still a tendency in the West to regard Africa as a charity case. The Chinese, meanwhile, see it as a whole new market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chinese tech companies are dominating in Africa: Tecno, a phonemaker owned by Shenzhen-based Transsion, has become one of the most well regarded brands in Africa thanks to the Chinese company\u2019s commitment to the market, David Pilling writes in the Financial Times. 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