DHAKA: Global brand LG smartphones in different price range, including LG’s flagship smartphone LG G5 are now available for Robi subscribers with Hire Purchase Scheme (HPS).
The HPS scheme has been offered for the first time in the country’s telco industry, says a press release.
This unique offer allows Robi users to avail these quality handsets with Equated Monthly Installment (EMI) even without using credit cards. These offers will be available at all the LG-Butterfly authorized stores across the country.
Robi and LG Butterfly Marketing Ltd. have recently signed an exclusive deal in this regard at the mobile phone operator’s corporate office.
Robi’s managing director and CEO Supun Weerasinghe and LG Butterfly Marketing Ltd’s chairman and managing director MA Mannan signed the agreement on behalf of their respective organizations.
As per the agreement, LG’s popular smartphone devices LG K7, LG K10, LG Class and LG G5 are available for the Robi subscribers using the EMI facilities under the HPS scheme.
Customers can choose between EMI facility spread over six or twelve months. LG K7 comes with Robi’s 250 minutes talk-time and 2GB internet bundle; LG K10 comes with 350 minutes talk-time and 2GB bundle; LG Class comes with 400 minutes talk-time and 3GB internet bundle and LG’s flagship smartphone LG G5 comes with 900 minutes talk-time and 5GB internet bundle.
In case of LG K7, the customer needs to pay 2,017 taka if they choose the six month long EMI facility; the monthly EMI payment will be 1,125 taka for 12 month long EMI facility. LG K10’s six month EMI facility requires the customer to pay 2,778 taka each month; the monthly EMI amount would be 1,554 taka for 12 month long period.
EMI monthly payment for LG Class is 4,038 taka for 6 month long EMI plan and taka 2,213 taka for 12 month plan. LG G5’s monthly EMI payment is 10,943 taka for six month plan and 5,860 taka for 12 month plan.
Regional Managing Director of LG Singapore, Park Youn Chul; Regional Managing Director of LG Bangladesh, Edward Kim; LG Butterly Ltd’s Director, Mahabub-Ur Rahaman Shajib; Chief Operating Officer (COO), Mustafizur Rahman Shazid; Executive Director, MH Sufyani and Manager, Mobile Operation, Mohammad Moniruzzaman and Robi’s Executive, Business Operations Jean-Michel Arnaud Chanut; General Manager, Device Business, Md. Ataul Haque and Manager, Device Business, Anamika Zinat Sultana were present at the agreement signing ceremony.
BDST: 1709 HRS, JUN 23, 2016
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