Determination issued on the limited mobility under which all WLL operators have to implement single cell mobility.

International settlement rates and mobile termination rates reduced.

A roadmap planned to reduce the menace of grey traffic in the country and several illegal cases unearthed.

As part of deregulation process, 696 licenses issued till July 2005 of which 36 are LL, 17 WLL, 12 LDI and 372 card payphones.

Show cause notices issued to Mobilink and Ufone against low quality service to their customers. Notices to other operators were also issued.

The authority during the year received and disposed off 12,137 complaints against all operators in fixed and mobile segments. 952 inspections and 214 surveys were also carried out.

The annual royalty on mobile operators was decreased from 1.5% to 0.5% of annual gross revenue minus inter operator payments for new entrants.

Initial license fees of card payphone operators was further reduced from Rs.100,000 to Rs. 50,000.

Royalty on Card Payphone Operators was abolished and replaced with annual license fee of 1.5% of gross revenue or 10% of initial license fee whichever is higher.

Royalty fee of Internet Service Providers (ISP) was abolished and replaced with annual license fees of 0.66% of annual gross revenue.

Initial license fee of ISPs also reduced to Rs. 50,000 per telecom region.

Government further reduced activation tax on new mobile connections from Rs. 1000 to Rs. 500.

PTCLâ??s Reference Interconnect Offer (RIO) approved by PTA for interconnection with LDI and LL operators.

Total Teledensity of Pakistan reached 11.9% in June 2005 showing a growth of 88% over the last year.

Total number of mobile subscribers in Pakistan reached 12.5 million by end of June 2005 bringing mobile density to 8.3% crossing fixed line teledensity which is 3.43%.

The outgoing mobile airtime tariffs reduced by 48%.

Total fixed line working connections reached 5.2 million by the end of June 2005.

By June 2005, total subscribers of WLL services reached 267,363.

279,320 PCOs working across Pakistan

More than 2.1 million internet subscribers in Pakistan.

Installation charges for PTCLâ??s fixed line services were reduced by 44%.

PTCL Tariffs for national and international long distance reduced to Rs. 2.50 and Rs. 3.99 per minute.

For a 2 minute local call pulse WLL tariff was as low as Rs. 0.8.

Share of telecom sector alone in GDP increased from 1.5% to 1.9%.

Huge employment and investment opportunities were created in the telecom sector due to increased deregulation activities.

FDI in telecom sector amounted to US$ 494 million making it one third of the total FDI in the country.

During 2004-05, telecom contributed Rs. 67.1 billion in the national exchequer in terms of taxes and fee. GST/CED collection during the period reached Rs. 20.4 billion showing a growth of 67%.