Pakistan’s Mobile Phone Imports Cross $1.8 Billion in FY26

Pakistan imported $1.889 billion worth of mobile phones during FY2025-26, marking a 26.55 percent increase compared with $1.492 billion in the previous fiscal year, according to official data.

In local currency terms, mobile phone imports rose to Rs. 530.492 billion, up 27.24 percent from Rs. 416.937 billion recorded in FY2024-25.

On a monthly basis, mobile phone imports increased 11.88 percent to $141.556 million in June 2026, compared with $126.527 million in May. Year over year, imports during June also rose 2.62 percent from $137.941 million in the same month last year. The increase comes after mobile phone imports declined during FY2024-25, when Pakistan imported $1.494 billion worth of handsets, down 21.31 percent from $1.898 billion in FY2023-24.

Overall telecom imports also recorded strong growth, increasing 27.97 percent to $2.690 billion in FY2025-26 from $2.102 billion a year earlier.

Despite the rise in imports, locally assembled devices continued to dominate the market. During the first five months of 2026, domestic manufacturing and assembly plants produced 11.17 million mobile phones, compared with 1.91 million commercially imported handsets.

Of the locally assembled devices, 4.92 million were smartphones and 6.25 million were 2G feature phones. In May 2026, local manufacturers assembled 101,005 5G enabled smartphones.

According to the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA), 72.3 percent of mobile devices currently operating on Pakistani networks are smartphones, while the remaining 27.7 percent are 2G handsets.