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Pakistan Telecommunications Industry – Growth and Challenges

Posted by admin on September 21, 2010 in Articles · 4 Comments The ability to “communicate” has enabled humans to make a paradigm shift from tribal based communities to information based societies. With a volatile growth of ICT’s (Information and Communication Technologies) over the past few decades involving broadcasting, satellite communication, public telephony and IP networking the telecommunications have observed evolutionary escalation. . While comparing the novel means of communications, telecommunications would probably stand as the ‘pioneer technology’, giving birth to variety of communication means like PSTN, Mobile Telephony, Broadband networks, the Internet and so on. In a nutshell, this Telecommunications boom has brought a new evolutionary era of opportunity for all global economies and those able to grasp it at the right time have not only reaped the fruits of economic evolution in terms of revenue generation; but also been listed as telecommunication market leaders in their respective geographies. The assertion befits well for the 16th largest economy of Asia and 2nd largest economy of South Asia; Pakistan. Amir Malik The Pakistan telecommunication industry as a whole coupled with its public policies has undergone numerous changes in recent times. Recapitulating just the last decade, once a sophisticated commodity, the mobile phone, is now practically with-in the reach of every segment of the society, and is believed to be a basic communication requisite tool. The key stage of change was endorsement of the Deregulation Policy in 2003, followed by sector liberalization in the subsequent years through an efficient and transparent process. The process provided a foundation stone towards an amazing inclination of telecommunication sector with award of 2...