COMPANY REPORT
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Satellite Wholesaler ECHOLINK, Dubai
TRIMAX Distributor
ECHOLINK in Dubai
Ali Abbas (left), ECHOLINK’s
General Manager, and
Jerry Chu (right), TRIMAX’s
General Manager, in front of
ECHOLINK’s display wall. A
TRIMAX model can be seen on
a bottom shelf near Jerry Chu.
One of the largest satellite wholesalers in
Dubai is ECHOLINK. The company even
has four stores in Dubai’s Satellite Souk.
There in the Naif Street you’ll find an
endless variety of satellite shops right
on top of the next one. The local market
in Dubai isn’t all that big so most of the
buyers in Dubai’s Satellite Souk are
dealers from the surrounding
Middle Eastern and North
African countries - now
referred to as MENA
(Middle East, North Africa).
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ECHOLINK distributes satellite receivers under five different
brand names. Ali Abbas highlights the differences: “ECHOLINK
is our top-of-the-line brand name that we also sell in Europe
through our branch office in Holland. The brand name WizTech
covers the middle segment; we are just coming out with a new
product under this name, the WIZ-9555 HD CA Ci Super. It’s
an HD Twin Tuner box with PVR. Another brand new product is
the model IW-9999 Multimedia; it’s a hybrid HDTV receiver for
DVB-S/T/C and IPTV. On the lower end of the scale we use the
brand names AstroVox and MicroX and at the extreme bottom
end of the price scale is the name ENVISION. This brand is also
offered by many other wholesalers in the MENA region.” Ali
Abbas also announced an HDTV LCD-TV for the third quarter
of 2010.
ECHOLINK has been distributing the TRIMAX brand of signal
analyzers (check out the SM-3500 test report in the 12-01/2010
issue of TELE-satellite) in the MENA region since the beginning
of 2009. Ali Abbas is very satisfied with the TRIMAX sales trend
and revealed to us, “In the first q