ISLAMABAD – The number of 3G and 4G users in the country has crossed 60.02million by October 2018, adding around 0.52 million new users in a month.
The number of mobile broadband users till September 2018 was 59.48 million.
Latest statistics issued by Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) onSunday revealed that number of mobile phone users in Pakistan have nowcrossed 152.16 million by October as compared to 151.66 million bySeptember this year, registering an increase of 0.5 million during theperiod under review.
As per details, Jazz’s total count for 3G users stood at 14.42 million byOctober as compared to 14.84 million by end of September, registering adecrease of 0.43 million.
Jazz 4G user numbers jumped from 5,585,619 by the end of September to6,113,701 in October.
Zong 3G subscribers decreased from 8.885 million in September to 8.75million till October while the number of 4G users jumped from 8,521,530 inSeptember to 8,911,613 by October 2018.
The number of 3G users of Telenor decreased from 9.947 million in Septemberto 9.609 million. The number of 4G users jumped from 3,839,676 by the endof September to 4,110,634 by October.
Ufone in 3G domains has been showing growth and it added 0.245 million 3Gusers on its network during month of October as the total reached 8.103million by October as compared to 7.858 million by September 2018.
Tele-density for cellular mobile decreased to 74.23 compared to 74.24percent and broadband subscribers reached 62,171,455 by October as comparedto 61,635,257 in September 2018.