Mobile Broadband Dominates Telecom Industry
Daniyal Sohail Published April 19, 2018 | 04:09 PM
Mobile broadband users remain significantly higher than fixed broadband user to the dominance of the mobile platform in the country.
ISLAMABAD, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 19th Apr, 2018 ) :Mobile broadband users remain significantly higher than fixed broadband user to the dominance of the mobile platform in the country. Pakistan has seen a dramatic increase in mobile broadband as penetration over the past five years as mobile broadband subscribers reach 51 billion with teledensity of 25.32 on the other hand Basic Telephony Subscribers are 3Million with 1.30% Teledensity.
The telecom sector is one of the fastest growing segments of Pakistan's economy as the number of 3g and 4g users in the country has reached 51.248 million by end of February 2018, showing�a reasonable growth with each passing month.
Despite the efforts of the government to stimulate growth in the internet segment of the telecommunications market, for a long period it has remained a fairly sluggish component of Pakistan's overall telecoms sector.
Moderate growth is predicted over the next five years as the penetration of mobile broadband is predicted to continue to grow strongly. The declining number of fixed lines in Pakistan is restricting more widespread development of fixed broadband.
Over the next five years to 2022 low to moderate growth is expected from a small base. Talking to APP official of Ministry of Information Technology said, one of the main reason of slow growth of of fixed broadband is that, 4G network rollouts continue across the country.
By 2017 over 30% of Pakistan population was covered by a 4G network. Pakistan has seen a dramatic increase in mobile broadband penetration over the past five years with market penetration increasing from below 1% in 2012 to 24% in 2017, he added.
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