67 % Growth In Broadband Connections Witnessed
Mohammad Ali (@ChaudhryMAli88) Published July 03, 2018 | 02:39 PM
ISLAMABAD, Jul 3 (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 3rd Jul, 2018 ) :A tremendous growth of over 67% in broadband connections witnessed during last four years that shows a consistent growth and development in IT and telecom sector.
However, in 2013-14 number of connections was 13,205, the number of connection jumped to 15,084 in 2014-15, they reached 18,012 between 2015-16 and connections touched to 22,004 in 2016-17.
Talking to APP, an official of NTC said, there has been an upward surge to acquire and maintain DSL connections as internet has now become a necessity as compared to a luxury during the previous years.
He said figures given do not include those additional 15,000 connections that were generated by virtue of migration from Time-division multiplexing (TDM) to next-generation network (NGN).
He said, the core operations of landline telephone functions also reflected a growth rate of five percent.
This is additional growth and did not include 127,693 telephone lines that were generated by virtue of migration from Time-division multiplexing (TDM) to Next Generation Network (NGN).
To increase ICT services, the NTC has added total 41 new Districts/Cities/ sites in Punjab, Sindh, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan during 2013-2017. 18 sites in Sindh, 15 in Punjab, 2 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and 6 in Balochistan have been added due to which growth of five percent in telephone lines was witnessed, he added.
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