According to the latest figures released by Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA), Mobile tele-density reached to 59.8percent in May, 2010. Trends in tele-density are depicting a slower pace due to ‘maturity of market’ where operators have now adopted a retention policy instead of making efforts for expansion of subscribers. A total of 98 million cellular subscribers have been recorded in May, 2010. The share of market, as per PTA, Mobilink stayed at top with 32.64 percent of subscribers, while Telenor at 2nd position with 24.14 percent of mobile users, Ufone with 19.55 percent, 16.98 percent for Warid and 6.69 percent are Zong users. According to the data, in the month of May, mobile sector rose with a growth rate of 0.72 percent in comparison with the figures of last month (April, 2010). For growth pattern with in mobile operators, statistics are as, Warid is fastest growing operator with growth rate of 1.62 percent, 1.18 percent growth recorded for Ufone, followed by 0.85 percent for Telenor. Zong is the only operator which have negative growth of -3.12 percent.

Source: Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA), Telecom Indicators: Mobile Cellular Services, 2010

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