Mobile Subscriber Trend Watch – September 2009
The latest subscriber number update by PTA reveals very interesting results. The last figures of July showed a total subscriber base of cellular services reaching 95.5 million. The latest update takes this number up to 95.9 million showing the lowest growth rate of 0.13% this year. Much of this has to do with the SIM data corrections, as expected.
Telenor and Mobilink both showed increase in subscribers, almost neck-to-neck in numbers. The most interesting figures are of Ufone, which gained very little in July and lost much in two months. Warid and Zong also didn’t see much increase in July-September period.
I was expecting a drop in subscriber numbers after successful completion of the SIM Data Correction (668) Campaign which started in October. However depending on how PTA reported the numbers, some corrections may have started in August. This result shows that in coming months not only the growth rate will decline but the total number may also fall down further.
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October numbers are at 95.92 million. Ufone continues to lose while Mobilink has picked up a significant number of subscribers.
atlast the errors are being corrected and the true mobile subscriber database is available….
Finally we get the number update from PTA. There was a 3 month gap between the previous updated in August and this one. I assume PTA had to reconcile all the SIM data. Hopefully from now on the reporting and growth will resume on a regular basis.