Pakistan secured ITU council seat acquiring 117 votes

Chairman PTA Maj. Gen (R) Shahzada Alam Malik, elected as a Member of Radio Regulation Board, ITU.

In 2007 PTA established ITU Asia Pacific Center of Excellence (CoE) PTA Node for Policy & Regulations and conducted two training workshops for ITU participants from member countries.

Overall teledensity of Pakistan reached 52.8% in December 2007.

During 2006-07 total telecom revenue was Rs 236 billion.

Total telecom investment during the year was US $ 4.12 billion and the share of telecommunication sector in GDP was 2.0%.

Telecom companies have invested over US$ 8 billion during the last four years, mobile sector investment share accounts for 66% of the total investment.

During 2006-07 the revenue of mobile industry was Rs.133 billion, an increase of 48% from pervious year.

China Mobile investment is US$ 704 million during 2006-07 for expansion of CMPak networks.

Mobile Sector paid approximately Rs. 63 billion taxes to the National Exchequer during the year 2006-07.

Upto December 2007 cellular subscribers in Pakistan reached 76.6 million.

On average 2.3 million subscribers were added every month during 2006-07.

Upto June 2007 6,000 cities/towns/villages covered by mobile operators.

Upto December 2007, total cell sites 17,779 all over Pakistan.

Today mobile network coverage is reaching to almost 90% of the total population

The telecom sector received above US$ 1.8 billion FDI, 35% of the total FDI.

Telecom sector contributed Rs. 100 billion in the national exchequer in terms of taxes and regulatory fee which was 32% higher than the previous year.

GST/CED collection during the period reached Rs. 36.28 billion.

Over one million jobs have been created since the deregulation of the telecom sector

International Mobile Equipment Identity (IMEI) blocking system installed to stop Mobile handset theft, PTA blocked 96,258 hand sets.

PTA has prepared schedule for migration from 7 to 8 digits numbering plan.

Reduction in the Annual License Fee of Card Pay Phone Operators from 1.5% to only 0.1% of their revenues.

Rural Telephony Project launched during the year under which 400 Rabta Ghar (Telecentres) are being established in rural areas.

Total investment in the LDI sector grew upto US$ 603 million in 2007.

New LDI sector revenue stood at Rs. 15.3 billion.

Total LDI outgoing minutes from Pakistan grew to 1.3 billion minutes in 2007

12 LL companies are operational out of 38 companies.

At the end of 2006-07 total fixed line connections stood at 4.8 million where as the teledensity is 3.04%.

Out of 17 WLL licensed companies, 5 are fully operational whereas two companies (Wateen and Mytel) have been issued commencement of service certificates.

At the end of December 2007, WLL subscribers reached 2.1 million in Pakistan and teledensity stands at 1.34%.

There are total of 387,490 PCOs including WLL based PCOs which are working across Pakistan at the end of year 2006-07.

By June 2007, Broadband subscribers reached 71,000  and 65% of Pakistani broadband users enjoy DSL broadband technology.

Total number of Internet subscribers crossed 3.5 million and total number of users crossed 17 million mark in 2007.

The first phase of Deregulation in AJK & NAs completed with the issuance of cellular mobile licenses in June 2006.

PTA fixed US$ 10 million for grant of cellular mobile license for AJ&K and NAs and issued five cellular mobile Licenses to Mobilink, Warid Telecom, Telenor Pakistan, Ufone and Paktel.

The total teledensity of AJK & NAs was 20.1 in 2006-07 as compared to 3.6 in 2005-06. Overall growth in teledensity in the region due to deregulation is 450%.

By June 2007, Cellular subscribers reached 912,227 all across AJK & NAs.

All of the five new operators installed 260 cell sites across the AJK & NAs.