Cellular subscribers reaches 145 million: PTA

MG News | February 16, 2018 at 01:59 PM GMT+05:00
ISLAMABAD, Feb 16 (APP): The cellular subscribers have been reached 145 million with teledensity of 71.42 %, as a result of initiatives taken by ministry of Information Technology and Telecommunication. The 3G/4G subscribers have been reached 48 billion out of 145 Million mobile users in the country, Teledensity for 3G/4G subscribers has reached 23.81 persent and teledensity of cellular subscriber reached 71.42 percent till the month of December where as mobile broadband (3G/4G) users' were 37.574 million till December 2016, revealed by Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA). Whereas broadband subscriber reached 51 billion and teledensity of broadband reached 24.96 percent, according to an official data. The Ufone 3G users reached 5.7 million, Telenor 3G users reached 10.63 million, Mobilink 3G users reached 14.29 million and Zong 3G users reached 9.5 million till December 2017. Telenor 4G users reached 1.5 million, Mobilink 4G users reached 1.9 million and Zong 4G users reached 4.9 million. An official of IT Ministry said that once the infrastructure will be in place to achieve 100 percent 3G coverage, Pakistan will be ready to focus on the demand side of the technology; such as providing training for the masses who want to attain the best of digital skills. To promote digital trends, tomorrow Ignite is going to Inaugurate Digiskill programme to provide digital skill training to over 1 million Pakistani youth.
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