NATIONAL – The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has
revealed that mobile subscribers in Pakistan have reached 118.3 Million
as at March 31, 2012.
PTA has been updating its database regularly for the past few months
and found an increase of one million subscribers in three quarters of
the current financial year. The general teledensity continues to be
driven by the cellular teledensity. As of March 2012, total teledensity
reached 71.6 percent, as the cellular mobile teledensity stood up to
68.2 percent. The teledensities in fixed and wireless local loop
remained steady, at 1.8 and 1.6 percent, respectively. According to
estimates, the mobile industry is imparting over three million
subscribers every month of which ten to fifteen percent are first time
users.
However, due to the developments like multiple-sim and mobile number
portability, the active customers are believed to be somewhere between
70-80 percent of total subscriptions.
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