By Editor on January 24, 2011 · Leave a Comment
Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has announced that Pakistan has signed up its 100 millionth mobile phone subscriber at the end of last year.
Mobile services in Pakistan started in 1995 and three operators Instaphone, Paktel and Mobilink were providing services to only 68,038 subscribers on exorbitant rates. In order to give choice to the people of Pakistan, Ufone a subsidiary of PTCL was given license to operate mobile services in year 2000.
With the consent of the Government the Regulator implemented the Calling Party Pays Regime in 2001which gave boost to the subscriber base and it crossed 1 million in 2002. In 2003 deregulation was introduced in the mobile sector of Pakistan through Mobile Cellular Policy.
Telenor & Warid were awarded two new mobile licenses in 2004 against the price of 291 million dollar each and they started their operations in 2005. There was competition with 6 operators which gave boost to mobile subscribers’ base and it crossed 12 million in 2005. Telecom Industry showed signs of maturity with competition in 2007 and operators were providing services to 68 million subscribers. In 2009 subscribers crossed figure of 95 million. In June 2010 mobile subscribers reached 99.4 million.
At the end of the year, they officially passed the 100 million mark.
By Editor on October 12, 2006 · Leave a Comment
The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) says the number of subscribers in the country reached 41.5 million at the end of September, up more than seven million on the previous quarter. According to the PTA, Mobilink continues to lead the market with 20.31 million subscribers, followed by U-fone (8.86 million), Warid Telecom (5.93 million), Telenor Pakistan (4.59 million), Paktel (1.5 million) and Pakcom (285,000).
Source- http://www.telegeography.com
