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.




