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Pakistan Leads India in Teledensity?
Techtree News Staff, Mar 26, 2007 1215 hrs ISTThat India has emerged the world's fastest growing telecom market may have attracted global telecom giant, Vodafone, but reports say...
That India has emerged the world's fastest growing telecom market may have attracted global telecom giant, Vodafone, but if reports are to be believed, our neighbours, Pakistan, have a higher mobile penetration than us.
This, despite a lower per capita income, and nearly same handset costs and call tariffs. Mobile penetration in Pakistan is reportedly around 30 percent, almost double that in India - 14.3 percent.
One of the factors to which analysts attribute the lower penetration is the country's dense population. India enjoys the reputation of being the second most populous country in the world, with over 1 billion people. In comparison, Pakistan's population stands at only about 155 million people.
Things are however, expected to get better, with global investment bank, Macquarie Research, pegging wireless penetration to increase to about 36.7 percent in the next three years.
Rising household incomes and emergence of a dual mobile phenomenon in middle to high income groups are the likely drivers in fuelling this rise, according to analysts.
But, similar drivers are expected to take mobile penetration to even higher levels in Pakistan as well. The Pakistan Telecom Authority has reportedly set a target of overall teledensity close to 90 percent by 2015...
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