2009 Ends With 97.6 Million Mobile Subscribers
PTA has just released 2009 December mobile subscriber stats. Though it would have been nice if the industry could hit 100 million mark in calendar year 2009, we are content about the overall progress (7.6 million net additions) of the telecom segment. Mobilink had a good last quarter, ending with 30.8 million susbcribers and retained its market share of 32% from the beginning of the year. Telenor is firm at second spot. Ufone also showed good progress (18.5 M) towards the end of year but overall it fell behind Warid (18.8 M) which became the number 3 in terms of total subscribers.
The growth in the first quarter of 2010 will be important. Obviously we are looking at multiple challenges which telecom – and other industries – are facing in Pakistan and also on global scale.
Here are some snapshots. First one shows overall market share at end of 2009. Below that are the December growth numbers for each mobile network operator.
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