Sales of cellular connections in Pakistan have hit the rock bottom, since the new SIM rules are confining cellular companies to sell SIMs via service centres and company owned franchises only. According to latest stats issued by Pakistan Telecommunication Authority, five cellular companies added a total of 143,609 new subscribers in February 2013, down from average addition of around 1.000,000 subscribers per month during past [...]

Thanks to unlimited and in-expensive voice bundles, Pakistani cellular users make voice calls – to landline and other cellular networks – of over 16 billion minutes or 192.9 billion minutes per year. These stats were revealed by Pakistan Telecommunication Authority for year 2011-12 and it is likely that figure will go up further during the on-going year. Cellular outgoing traffic to local fixed line and [...]

Telecom sector of Pakistan contributed Rs. 132.5 billion during 2011-12 to national exchequer as taxes, up from Rs. 117 billion that were contributed last year. This huge collection of taxes is largely attributed towards heavily burdened cellular consumer, who is charged at as high as 30 percent of his/her total consumptions as taxes. Usually, throughout all sectors, GST is collected at 16% however, cellular consumers [...]

Pakistan Telecommunication Authority has said that it received 33,310 complaints from users against telecom operators during FY2012, out of which 99 percent complaints were addressed and resolved. PTA said that telecom consumers registered these complains through various channels, i.e., online, email (complaints@pta.gov.pk), hotline (0800-55055), written complaints and faxes sent to PTA headquarter addresses and zonal offices. These consumer complaints were against cellular operators, fixed line, [...]

Annual revenues from telecom sector of Pakistan reached Rs. 411.4 billion during the fiscal year 2011-12 up from Rs. 362.9 billion a year ago, registering a growth of 12 percent, said a recent report published by Pakistan Telecommunication Authority. Report said that this growth in telecom revenues this year is significant especially when growth rate was marginal during last two years, i.e. 5.4 percent during [...]

Mobile phone users in Pakistan exchanged a total of 237.58 billion text messages in 2011 (Jan 2011 to Dec 2011), up from 176 billion text messages that were shared in 2010, said a report published by Pakistan Telecommunication Authority. Report said that on average one mobile phone user sent 175 person to person SMS or text messages per month or 5.8 person to person SMS [...]

Telecom sector of Pakistan lost 1.65 million customers in December 2012 due to data clean-up of un-registered SIMs, said recent stats issued by Pakistan Telecommunication Authority. This notable rate of churn is attributed to data clean-up and ban on sale of SIMs through retailers’ network. It merits mentioning here that PTA – on directions of Interior Ministry – had directed all telecom operators to sell [...]

Cellular companies in Pakistan added 1,088,909 subscribers in November 2012 to take the total subscription base to 123,597,202 subscribers by end of November, said recently issued stats by Pakistan Telecommunication Authority. This huge increase in cellular subscription – after a long time – can be credited to Zong, which alone added 978,627 subscribers in the reported month. PTA said the cellular density stood hay 69.8 [...]

Mobile phone subscriptions surpassed 121.6 million in October 2012, as per latest stats issued by Pakistan Telecommunication Authority. Regulator, in its report, said that all cellular companies added over 1 Million subscribers during the reported month to take the total base to 121,602,339 subscription by end of October 2012. Stats said that cellular tele-density reached 68.8 percent, up from 68.3 percent a month ago. Mobilink [...]

2012 remained bumpy for Telecom Sector, especially for the cellular mobile sector. Price war, lowering ARPUs, devaluating currency, energy crisis and tough economic situations persisted throughout year to give the industry a tough time. Saturating market, cellular suspensions, hard and at times vicious regulatory decisions worsened the year for telecom service providers. In such situations, here are our predictions for 2013 for Telecom and Broadband [...]

اسے اردو میں پڑھیے The branchless banking players were able to register growth in m-wallets or mobile accounts by 25% during July-September 2012 to take the count to 1.8 million mobile accounts in total, said a report published by State Bank of Pakistan. Moreover, 7% growth was registered in number of agents, 11% growth was recorded in number of transactions and 21% in value transacted [...]

اسے اردو میں پڑھیے Pakistan Telecommunication Authority has said that Broadband connections in Pakistan had surpassed 2,178,833 mark, by August 2012. According to latest stats issued by the authority, broadband subscribers reached 2.18 million, adding 39,657 subscribers in the month of August 2012. DSL remains the top technology for broadband market with 896,325 subscribers with EvDO to follow with 637,782 subscribers. WiMAX operators had 597,618 [...]

اسے اردو میں پڑھیے Mobile phone subscribers in Pakistan reached 120.5 million mark in September 2012. According to stats published by Pakistan Telecommunication Authority, total base of cellular subscribers in Pakistan stood at 120,513,430 subscriptions as of September 30th, 2012. PTA said that cellular tele-density reached 68.3 percent, down from 68.5 percent in July 2012. Mobilink still tops the market with 36,073,988 subscribers while Warid [...]

World Bank has announced that three quarters of the world’s population or 75 percent inhabitants on the earth have access to mobile phones, or out of the 7 billion population in this world, 5.25 billion people use mobile phone for communication and other needs. The number of mobile phone subscriptions amounts to over 6 billion, while 5 billion out of total count come from developing [...]

According to latest stats issued by Pakistan Telecommunication Authority, cellular industry of Pakistan ended May 2012 with almost 120 million subscribers or 119,860,799 subscribers to be exact. PTA said that teledensity of cellular mobile subscribers in Pakistan reached 68.8 percent, up from 68.2 percent in March 2012. PTA today updated cellular subscribers’ stats for April and May 2012, in which Mobilink, Telenor, Ufone and Zong [...]