Pakistan Goes Wireless: Pakistan Telecom in Cellular Industry
Pakistan has simply caught bush fire in a wireless craze since the dawn of web surfing in the Pakistan Telecom industry. Mobile and cellular went viral after 2004 and prospects were huge. The result is that Pakistan today ranks as the first and foremost country with cheapest data plans and web surfing facilities. A gargantuan network of internet cafes, call exchanges, wireless radio towers and office complexes sprung up across the nation. Pakistan is currently the leading country in the world with fastest ISP and mobile user rate of 12 units.
Such developments not only has managed to bring Pakistan into the new millennium a top recognized IT state but also exploded out new frontiers in modernization, job opportunities and expansion of a wealthy middle class; all good news to a young country. Some of the various enterprises in cellular are Telenor, Mobilink, Ufone, Paktel, Warid, and lately Zong. There are other ISP and older web hosting firms that also looked into the promising future of these ventures. Some are Micronet, PTCL, and Qubee Pakistan.
The Foreign Direct Investment association in the Pakistan telecom sector started off with 1900 million US dollars at the start of this campaign in 2005, and by 2009 had peaked at a staggering 815 million US dollars in profits for a country that was a half a century before not on the map.
There was however a gentle leveling off in the gradient for this year’s revenue but cellular revenue however continues to increase, and has more than doubled from a start of 90,000 million in 2006 to a hefty Rs240,000 million by this year’s end.
Cell phones have become rampant and a common sight throughout the nation. Even the lower classes can now afford the cheap cell phones and provider plans. Even when they ass they go on the current more modern and user-friendly GSM system. Top companies and firms like Qubee Pakistan and likewise from the cellular trade, are focusing to not only cover the more remote and native areas in the country with cellular coverage but also with high speed WLAN and WIMAX.
Even more is that firms like Ufone have taken the risk to introduce lower, cheaper, and more plans for the majority of the lower and the lower middle class in Pakistan.
Mobile phone users and likewise cellular network subscribers total 100 million in multiple SIM cards and cell phones as well as individuals. That makes two-thirds of population accessing a busy and expanding network which is one of the largest in the world.
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