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Foxconn, the Taiwanese contract manufacturer, has decided to build a mobile phone factory nearby.
They reckon that Motorola could use the Alba centre, with its high-tech expertise, to convert the phone factory to make new electronic devices using, for example, voice-recognition technology.
And Foxconn is planning to establish a phone factory in Indonesia by the end of this year, having promised to invest up to $10bn in Indonesia within the next five to 10 years.
"[The agent in Nepal] told me it was a [Samsung] mobile phone factory where I would only have to pack mobiles … but I am making microwaves and it is very difficult," says Bhandari.
Now the challenge for companies here is to avoid having to impose a quarantine, as Motorola was forced to do when a single employee at its mobile phone factory here developed SARS in March.
Big closures such as Motorola's mobile phone factory (3,000 jobs) and NEC's semiconductor plant (1,000 jobs) saw employment slashed from 62,300 jobs in 1999 to 41,200 now.There were, however, some Scottish winners from the cost-cutting fever.
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Good handwriting landed her a better position as a clerk in a mobile-phone factory.
"I just can't hire men," Xu Xin, who had started a cell-phone factory, told me bluntly.
The interior of Auto World had been remodelled so successfully that there was no sign that this two-story building once housed the cell-phone factory that went out of business for lack of female workers.
Motorola abandoned a plan to spend £1.3 billion ($1.9 billion) this year on a new semiconductor factory in Scotland and closed a mobile-phone factory, sacking 3,000 people.The picture is not entirely gloomy.
We'll know for sure when brick-and-mortar video stores go the way of hand-cranked-phone factories.
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