F.P. Report
ISLAMABAD: Due to increase in smart phone users Mobile handsets imports in the country observed a remarkable growth of 15% in the first half of fiscal year 2017-18 (July to December).
Mobile handsets imports in the country observed a growth of 14.94% in the current fiscal year from July to November in 2017-18, The imports rose by $303.238 million in the current fiscal year, as compared to $264.009 million during the same period in FY 2016-17 (July-November).
The data reveals that mobile imports in November 2017 decreased by 11.49 percent and reached only $58.246 million which is lower than last year’s same period of time i.e. $65.804 million.
Furthermore, an increase of 14.02 percent has been observed in overall imports of telecom during July to November in 2017, as compared to the same period of time of the last year.
During the recently passed quarter of 2017, the imports of the telecom reached $113.522 million and negative growth of 2.71 percent has been observed, as compared to last year’s $116.690 million during the same quarter.
3G and 4G users in Pakistan reached 49.46 million by the end of January 2018, is one of the major reason of increase of smart phones
As Number of mobile phone users in Pakistan reached 145.99 million by the end of January 2018, compared to 144.52 million by December 2017, registering an increase of 1.47 million users during the period under review.
Jazz’s total count for 3G users stood at 14.546 million by January 2018, compared to 14.299 million by December 2017, registering an increase of 0.247 million. Jazz’s 4G user numbers jumped from 1,934,752 by the end of December 2017 to 2,238,018 by January 2018.
Zong’s 3G subscribers increased to 9.089 million by the end of January 2018, compared to 9.044 million by the end of December 2017, while the number of 4G users jumped from 4,961,350 by December to 5,072,443 by January.
The number of 3G users on Telenor’s network increased from 10.63 million by December 2017 to 10.756 million by January 2018. Like others, the number of 4G users increased from 1,594,897 by December 2017 to 1,883,616 by January 2018.
Ufone added 0.149 million 3G users on its network during the month of January as the total reached to 5.869 million by end of January 2018 against 5.720 million by December 2017.
Teledensity for cellular mobile users reached 73.44 percent and broadband subscribers reached 51,767,141 by January 2018 compared to 50,512,909 by December 2017.
