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In coming days, we will cover each chapter of this report in detail, while the summarized facts are given below:
Total teledensity of country reached 64.08 percent in FY 2009-10 with 3.5 % YoY growth
Cellular teledensity reached 60.4 percent
Total telecom sector revenues reached Rs. 357.7 billion in FY 2009-10, compared to Rs. 333 billion during same period last year
Cellular mobile sector revenues were Rs. 236.1 billion with 11 percent YoY growth rate
Total investments made in telecom sector during FY 2009-10 stood at USD 1.13 billion, where cellular share was 80 percent
FBR collected Rs. 44 billion as sales tax and federal excise duty (FED) from the telecom sector during 2009-10, as compared to Rs. 49 billion during same period pervious year.
Total tax collection by mobile sector was Rs 71.95 billion, which was Rs 82.3 billion in 2008-09.
Activation tax declined by about 53 percent in 2009-10.
PTA collected a total of Rs. 13.56 billion as license fee, USF and R&D contribution, compared to Rs. 9.15 billion collected last year.
Fixed teledensity, following the global trend, dropped to 3.68 percent.
Pakistan has total of 3.42 million fixed subscribers, 2.66 million WLL subscribers.