Telecommunication Trends in Pakistan

Abstract

Pakistan's telecommunication market is one of the world's fastest growing industry. The Telecom sector is growing at a pace of 170% yearly. Pakistan has a population of more than 160 million and the number of mobile phone subscribers are 78.73 million as of January 2008. According to Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA), 2.7 million subscribers are added monthly (ntcpk n.d.), The PTA expects the number to cross 100 million users by 2010 (Johnson n.d.).This paper presents Telecommunication trends in Pakistan with a focus on: one, the economic development, and development trends of Pakistan telecommunication industry, two, Communication Infrastructure, three, Mobile phone adoption, four market survey and analysis, and five the teledensity comparison of Pakistan with other South Asian countries.