Mobile Evolution

ISLAMABAD (July 27 2009): Chairman Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) Dr Mohammed Yaseen Sunday claimed that Pakistani cellular phone companies were providing cheapest call rates across the globe. "In a recent conference in India, the Indians claimed that they were providing cheapest calls world over.However, I confronted and made calculations to prove that Pakistan was the country providing the most inexpensive phone facility...

According to Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA), the country’s mobile operators added 6.322 million subscribers on their network in 2008-09. As per latest statistics released by the telecom regulator, the total mobile subscriber base across the nation reached 94.342 million on the network of five operators. Accordingly, the subscribers’ base widened by 7.1% with teledensity touching 58.20.Telenor ruled the market as it added the...