Telecom in Pakistan

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Trend Analysis of Telecom Sector

Submitted by: Anum Safdar Submitted to:Zeenat Jabbar

Anum Safdar Khan Mam Zzeenat Jabbar

Telecom Industry Overview:

The telecom industry has been one of the most rapidly flourishing industry in the country. The mobile penetration has been 60.6% which is impressive over the decade. However in the current fiscal year the growth of teledensity has been comparatively slow and it grew only by 2%. Teledensity is basically calculated by knowing the number of phones possessed per 100 people in a given or chosen region.

The cellular mobile market has added more than 3.4 million subscribers in july-Aug with 0.3 million average monthly growth. The subscribers base marked more than one percent growth only in one month throughout the fiscal year and seen users’ contraction in a couple of month. Another flourishing sector, Wireless Local Loop, has been broadening its customer’s base with handsome growth. Its five major operators have added 171,569 connections on their network in three quarters of current fiscal year.[1]

Major Players and Market shares:

There are five major players in the telecom sector namely:

• Mobilink

• Ufone

• Zong

• Warid

• Telenor

These are the names of the corporate they can be further divided into sub brands for instance:

• Mobilink Telenor

Jazz and indigo Djuice and Talkshawk and Persona

• Warid Ufone

Zem and Zahi Ufone prepaid packages

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The graph above shows the significant...