Starr Computers yesterday launched its ‘Samsung Experience Centre’, making Guyana the eighth country in the Caribbean to benefit from technology giant Samsung’s agreement to start 41 stores in the hemisphere.
The Samsung store in Guyana is housed at the Starr Computers building in Brickdam and retails Samsung-brand cellphones, tablets, notebooks and televisions. “This is a tremendous moment for us,” Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Starr Computers Mike Mohan said.
Mohan said it was a tough job getting a corporate giant like Samsung to launch a store in Guyana but in the end they managed to convince them. He said that the launch of a major technology store such as Samsung would have huge spinoffs on the economy and the country’s development as a whole.
“It’s going to create a lot of indirect employment,” he said. He also expected that there would inevitably be more resellers coming stream to market the products. “Samsung is a product of the future,” he added.
Earlier in the year, Samsung had announced plans to increase its dominance as the leading technology giant in the world through the launch of several stores in the region.
Mohan said a Samsung store in Guyana would modernise technology in Guyana because of the reliability of its products and its advancements. He added that Samsung’s “Smart School Project” would also create development in Guyana, through the introduction of the tablets into schools.
He explained that Starr Computer would be working with the Education Ministry to subsidise tablets for use in schools. The CEO also announced plans to work with a major hard drive company to increase the use of local cloud storage, and also to build a new building for the Brickdam centre.
Starr Computer has also signed on with Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry (GBTI) and Republic Bank for customers to access their equipment on hire purchase. “We encourage all our customers to buy standard phones that are approved,” he said, noting that the new Samsung Store would have trained technicians to fix damaged products. According to him, technicians are currently being trained via the internet and would close the programme with Samsung engineers coming to Guyana to train them further.
