Mobile Phone Users Crosses 137 Mln

Fakhir Rizvi Published March 22, 2017 | 12:00 PM

ISLAMABAD, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 22nd Mar, 2017 ) : Mobile phone users in Pakistan have crossed 137 million by end of January after addition of 0.506 million customers by mobile phone companies during one month.

The latest data released by Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) on Wednesday said since July 2016 the subscribes base has been showing raising trend. Till July last year, the number of subscribers was 133.2 million.

All new addition are now being bio-metrically verified. The data said mobilink was leading the charts with 51.

534 million customers while Telenor was closing in the gap with 39.586 million subscribers.

However, after merger of Mobilink and warid, Mobilink was able to widen the lead with more post-merger customers. zong had 27.496 million customers while Ufone stood with 18.478 million customers. Mobile tele-density increased from 69.8 percent to 70 percent and Broadband subscribers increased from 37.6 million in December 2016 to 38.27 million till January 2017.