Pakistan Leads India in Teledensity?

Pakistan Leads India in Teledensity?

Techtree News Staff, Mar 26, 2007 1215 hrs IST

That 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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by Swaroop, India, on Mar 27, 2007 01:57 PM, Report abuse   Reply

Sure. And here are the all-important numbers. Pakistan's population - 169 million India - 1.1 billion. Number of mobile phone users in India, as of Dec 2006: 149.5 million. (above numbers courtesy of, who else, wikipedia.) This article is useless. Stop wasting bandwidth and webapges on such bilge. I ignored this 'story' all this time, but it's getting to me now.

by Harish, Bangalore, on Mar 26, 2007 03:36 PM, Report abuse   Reply

I?m with you on that one buddy!

by john walker, California, on Mar 27, 2007 05:43 AM, Report abuse

all those with mobile subscribers are Fu**ing talibans using for drug trafiking and figting so called jihad.

by sam, londoa, on Mar 26, 2007 11:15 PM, Report abuse   Reply

Smaller nations will have even higher teledensity. Bermuda has about 85% teledensity. Monaco a smallest nation has 99% teledensity.

by Akshay, Delhi, on Mar 26, 2007 05:46 PM, Report abuse   Reply

i want list of hello tunes for idea

by vinayika, rohtak, on Mar 26, 2007 03:41 PM, Report abuse   Reply

Percent could be very misleading when we compare a Dinosaurs with Ant. So go by Absolute Numbers!

by MobileGuy, Mumbai, on Mar 26, 2007 02:12 PM, Report abuse   Reply

They are talking about density!! Not quantity!!!

by Shan, Tvm, on Mar 26, 2007 02:17 PM, Report abuse

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