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Teledensity Reaches 64 Percent, PTA 2010 Annual Report

Tech Readers — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 08:21:57 +0000

Total tele-density of the country reached 64.08 percent in financial year 2009-2010, showing a growth of 3.5 percent over 2008-2009. The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has issued its Annual Report 2010 highlighting achievements and performances and an overview of the telecom sector’s growth.

According to the report the mobile sector has survived tough times and telecom indicators have stabilized with timely and prudent strategies. The number of mobile users touched the 100 million mark at the end of July 2010 with mobile penetration of 60.4 percent. Total telecom sector revenues reaches Rs. 357.7 billion in 2009-2010 with investment of over $1.13 billion, showing 11 percent growth over last year. Telecom sector revenues improved steadily in 2009-2010 and 6.5 percent growth rate was witnessed. The PTA also contributed Rs 201.43 million to the Prime Minister’s Flood Relief Fund 2010.

Source: APP

A Tribute to Icons: Wateen Telecom

Bilal Akram — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 09:42:03 +0000

As a nation we all need to take some inspiration form the Icons whose valiant and heroic efforts have been commemorates in the pages of history.

These heroic figures, whether living or dead have always been an inspiration for us over the last decades however a memento of their victories and struggles will assist us once again in reviving the pride of our nation and reclaims the confidence of realizing what we aim for.

In order to bring these Icons in the glare of publicity congratulating them for their lifetime achievements Wateen Telecom has taken a brave step by dedicating its 2010 Calendar and Diary to the true Heroes and Icons of Pakistan.

Wateen’s focus revolves around those 12 iconic personalities that depict an outline of their live and accomplishments that the people of Pakistan should never forget; one should remember all the troubles and trails that these heroes went through to realize their dreams in bringing honor to their homeland.

Wateen has opted to honor 12 prominent Pakistanis from different walks of life but only connected by one quality, which is the brilliance in their respective fields.

The names of these honored personalities are given below;

1. Nazir Sabir,

2. Muhammad Abdur Rahman Chughtai,

3. Dr. Rail Muhammad Chaudhry,

4. Abdul Sattar Eidhi,

5. Sadruddin Hashwani,

6. Pathanay Khan,

7. Patras Bukharl,

8. Dr. Atta ur Rahman,

9. Shoaib Mansoor,

10. Saadat Hassan Manto,

11. Nigar Nazar,

12. Hashim Khan:

Keeping all the stereotypes aside, these 12 people have influenced not just Pakistanis but astonished the whole world through their achievements.

FBR Instructed to File FIR Against 4 Telecom Companies

Tasadduq Bashir — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 01:55:33 +0000

PAC (Public Accounts Committee) of the NA (National Assembly) has instructed FBR (Federal Board of Revenue) to file a FIR against Directors of 4 telecom companies. These companies have allegedly stolen tax worth Rs. 320 million in the year 2006 – 07. FBR is directed to come up with this FIR within 48 hours. Companies under investigation are Dencom, Global telecom, Union Communications and World Call.

FBR has been directed to freeze assets of the Directors of said companies in order to recover the tax.

Reports from Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) have also been looked upon by the meeting. PTA has asked to cancel the licenses of these 4 companies as well asked CDA to cancel transfer of house of Board of Directory Dencom (Muhammad Luqman) to anyone else.

Chairman PAC paid serious attention about restoring suspended officers involved in illegal transfer of tax to the telecom companies. Serious action would be taken against Secretary Revenue Division (Suleman Saddique) for restoring such officers.

Dencom Limited has failed to pay up Rs. 1 billion to PTA. “Dencom Limited was owned by Governor Punjab before it was sold to Oman Tell” Said Hamid Yar Hiraj. PTA on the other hand told committee that Dencom Limited is in debt of Rs. 1.22 billion to PTA.

This is really a sad news for people who pay up tax on regular basis or for people who fail to pay tax on time and are annoyed by the authorities. While these big crocs don’t pay billions and stay free.

Hopefully this meeting will produce some result and government’s money will be collected. Last but not least, this money is spent on public. We can hope …..

Pakistan Mobile Subscribers Statistics Dec 2009

Tech Readers — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 22:12:40 +0000

Pakistan is now in the list of fastest telecom growth countries. Calls rates are very low in Pakistan and this is one of many factors of this development. Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has released Mobile Service Providers statistics as on December 2009. There are 97,579,940 (97.6 Million) Mobile users with Mobile Density of 59.60% in Pakistan according to the report (Dec 09).

GSM service pioneer Mobilink stands first with 30,800,354 subscribers. Telenor on second with user base of 22,500,789 and Warid (18,847,315), Ufone (18,510,175), and ZONG (6,920,234) on 3rd, 4th, and 5th respectively. Overall all companies showed positive trend except Ufone whose user base declined in 2009 last quarter.

The growth rate is recorded 0.93% as compared to Nov 09, 0.83%.

Cellular Company	Aug 09	Sept. 09	Oct 09	Nov 09	Dec 09
Mobilink	29,840,415	30,046,050	30,275,979	30,480,398	30,800,354
Ufone	19,607,299	19,104,594	18,329,967	18,361,072	18,510,175
Zong	6,556,697	6,629,761	6,752,031	6,869,174	6,920,234
Instaphone	3,575	1,073	1,073	1,073	1,073
Telenor	21,428,286	21,658,592	21,975,271	22,279,449	22,500,789
Warid	18,347,366	18,468,208	18,584,409	18,718,419	18,847,315
Total	95,783,638	95,908,277	95,918,729	96,709,585	97,579,940

SCO Cellular Subscribers are 285,072 Note: Including AJK & NAs

Source: Pakistan Telecommunication Authority

Positive Trend in Telecom Sector During 2008-09

Tech Readers — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 10:58:07 +0000

Out of the top four cellular players Ufone has been the biggest impetus behind the Cellular industry’s 17% growth as declared by PTA in its annual report for the year 2008-2009. Ufone’s is at the top with an astounding revenue growth of 46% during past year.

The report states that cellular telecom sector in Pakistan maintained a positive growth rate for the year 2008-09 despite a cut throat tariff and call packages competition and sluggish economic conditions in the country.

A recently released annual report PTA for the year 2008-2009 has shown growth of 17% in revenue for the cellular industry overall reflecting that the industry is involved in a healthy competition and its strategy to increase customer base as well as revenues through value added services and call minutes has worked so far.

Amongst the top four players, Ufone led with 46% increase in revenue, Mobilink the largest cellular operator in the country in terms of declared customer base has increased its net revenue by 4%over the same period, Telenor also performed well with 14% increase and Warid telecom fared with 9% increase in revenue. The total revenue of the industry saw a growth from Rupees 182.122 billion in the year 2007-2008 to Rupees 212.423 billion in the year 2008-2009.

But despite these increases in revenue the most of the operators are showing losses as these have to invest further in a competitive market. Ufone however has shown a profit of Rs 1.7 billion despite that fact it has further invested USD 245 million in the last year to expand and improve its network. PTA attributes this to Ufone’s robust and prudent handling of its finances.

PTA also has noted that Average Revenue Per User has also decreased over the year as the customer base has expanded into the lower income segment that used voice telephony more instead of value added services. Mobilink and Ufone here again have shown the way with leading the industry by getting better revenue as compared to the rest of the industry from data services.

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