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TSS to launch ‘Doyel TV’ in January


Published : 28 Nov 2020 10:34 PM | Updated : 29 Nov 2020 03:15 PM

State-owned Telephone Shilpa Sangstha (TSS) Limited is going to launch television for the first time with its own brand named ‘Doyel TV’ in next January. 

It is expected that people will get the television with 10 to 20 percent less price along with good quality, a top official said. 

This reporter visited its Tongi office and factory in Gazipur recently. It was seen that the company was assembling television for test run. Besides, it is also producing various types of products like desktops, notebooks, tabs, biometric devices, multimedia projectors, sound boxes, smart pre-paid energy meters and other digital devices. 

Engineer Fakhrul Haider Chowdhury, Managing Director of TSS, told The Bangladesh Post that “We have already successfully assembled 4 pieces of television as trial basis. Hopefully it will be launched in market in next January. Our target is to produce best quality of product and the price will be lower at least 10-20 percent in according to same quality products of others company in the market. 

“Currently our production capacity is 500 pieces in a day.  We have already got an order for supply of 2000 pieces television from Department of Telecommunication (DOT). They will  use the 56 inch ‘Doyel’ brand television for project titled ‘digitization of government primary school education system in rural areas’,” he added. 

In addition, TSS is likely to stage a comeback soon as it has started producing various digital devices to cope with the people’s expectations and the national demand as well.

On the occasion of Bangabandhu's birth centenary, TSS has brought BB-2020 model laptop in the market. This world class laptop with Quad Core (I-7, Generation-9) will cost only taka 72 thousand. But the price of the same quality laptop in the market is more than one lakh taka. Besides, some laptops of other models are also being made here for the people, the prices of which are much less than other companies, TSS sources said.

TSS has started producing smart prepaid meters in the country for the first time. The world-class electric meter is being produced in our factory that has the capacity to produce 5 lakh meters every year. It has already supplied 2 lakh meters to DESCO and some 30,000 meters to REB.