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Paktel market shares is projected to be 6.4% in 2010 (Pakistan)

  • August 21st, 2008
  • 1:04 pm

Pakistan has transformed from a regulated state-owned monopoly telecom market to a deregulated competitive structure very challenging. Penetration of fixed-line and Internet services remain low. The mobile market has taken off, with high annual growth and it’s looking like a sustained development phase. The Internet market certainly has huge potential, but there is a long way to go. Operators covered for Pakistan include: Mobilink, Ufone, Paktel, Instaphone, Telenor, and Warid Telecom.

Notable highlights of Pakistan Mobile Forecast include:

  • Pakistan will continue to see reductions in ARPUs over the forecast period of 2008 - 2010. In 2010, Pakistan will have the average ARPU level of US$ 2.84, which is the lowest ARPU in our coverage list of countries.
  • Pakistan will see its wireless penetration level increase from a projected 58.7% in 2008 to a forecasted 71.6% in 2010. This would make Pakistan the most highly penetrated market in South Asia.
  • The largest operators in Pakistan are Mobilink, Ufone, Telenor and Warid Telecom; they will have market shares (by subscribers) of 36.1%, 19.3%, 21.2% and 17.3% respectively in 2010.
  • In addition, a smaller operator, Paktel, is growing rapidly. Its market share will increase from our projected 3.7% in 2008 to a forecasted 6.4% in 2010.

Pakistan adds 1.3 million mobile subscribers in the month of June (Pakistan)

  • July 15th, 2008
  • 2:21 pm

Pakistan has added 1.3 million mobile subscribers in the timespan of one month. The figure from 86.69 million in the month of May reached a new high of 88.02 million, according to the figures from market regulator PTA.The mobile teledensity rose from 53.9% in May to 54.4% in June, showing a growth of 0.5% in a month.
Mobilink became the market leader with 32.03 million subscribers alone. Next came Telenor, with a huge gap of 13.90 million, it stood at 18.13 million subscribers. Ufone acquired the third place with 18.1 million subscribers.Warid at 15.49 million was followed by 3.95 million Zong subscribers. Instaphone remained stagnant to it’s figures for the month of April i.e. 321,204 subscribers.

PTA to establish 400 telecentres in Pakistan’s rural areas

  • February 6th, 2007
  • 12:05 pm

Telecompaper writes…The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has launched a telecentre project called ‘Rabta Ghar’ in rural areas across Pakistan. Under the first phase of the scheme, PTA along with other telecom operators will establish 400 telecentres for which equipment worth PKR 50,000 each will be provided free of cost. The telecom operators sponsoring ‘Rabta Ghar’ include PTCL (100), Mobilink (100), Ufone (50), Instaphone (15), Intel (10), Worldcall (payphones in all Rabta Markaz) and PTA (125) bringing the total to 400. A ‘Rabta Ghar’ (telecentre) is a small business set-up that provides PCO, internet, fax, printing and scanning services to small communities. These telecentres will be provided to those individuals who are unemployed with at least intermediate qualification and have a shop or room of minimum 10×12 ft. Individuals from villages/union councils will be considered for ‘Rabta Ghar’ where the population is 4,000 to 10,000 and no public telephone or net cafe facility in the radius of 5 km is available. PTA has also arranged free delivery, installation and training of the ‘Rabta Ghar’ equipment on the premises of the selected individuals by Intel through its genuine Intel dealers (GIDs). Applications have been invited from eligible candidates before 15 February.