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ISLAMABAD – Telecom industry has seen a dramatic increase during the lastfour years as irs revenue reached $ 15.35 billion during July 2013 to June2017.
The growth rate of Pakistan’s telecommunication sector has beenimpressively fast-paced and contributed a lot in bringing Mobile Broadbandservices – 3G, 4G, LTE, to the country and has contributed $ 4.42 billionto National exchequer during July 2014 to June 2017.
According to a statistical report July 2018 by Pakistan TelecommunicationAuthority (PTA), the number of 3G/4G subscribers in the country has crossed57 million.
Meanwhile, the number of mobile phone users have increased to 151 milliontill July 2018. Member Information Technology at Ministry of IT andTelecommunication, Mudassir Hussain said, Pakistan, having more than 58million fixed and mobile broadband users, is providing affordable andquality internet services as compared to other regional countries and it isthe competition due to which broadband rate in Pakistan is also far moreaffordable than the other countries.
He told APP that for Pakistan, recognizing ICT as an industry has been veryrecent but our IT and Telecom sector is moving on fast pace and all thesethings really matter in decision making of global players to set up theirpresence here and that will help in generating revenue.
The ministry official told APP to promote telecom industry in 2014, 3Glicenses were awarded to Jazz, Telenor, Ufone, and Zong while the last onewas also given the license of the 4G service.
Later on, in 2016, Telenor received the 4G license and after that Jazz wasawarded the same license in 2017.
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He said, Mobile broadband users remain significantly higher than fixedbroadband user to the dominance of the mobile platform in the country.
Statistics issued by Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) have showedthat number of mobile phone users reached 151 million by July 2018, ascompared to 145.99 million by end of January 2018.
Mobilink Jazz’s total count for 3G users stood at 15.03 million by July2018, as compared to 14.54 million by January 2018. Jazz 4G user numbersjumped from 2.23 by January 2018 to 4.6 million by July 2018.
Zong 3G subscribers decreased to 9.22 million by July 2018, from 9.08million in January 2018, while number of 4G users jumped from 5.07 millionby January end to 7.76 million by June 2018.
The number of 3G users of Telenor increased from 10.75 million in January2018 to 10.31 million by July 2018. The number of 4G users jumped from 1.88million in January 2018 to 3.3 million by July 2018.
Ufone total subscriber reached to 7.06 by end of July 2018 as they were6.630 million in January 2018. – APP
