The number of the users of mobile phone in Pakistan has reached from 0.3 million to about 90 million during the last eight years.

Pakistan’s mobile market according to the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has reported a penetration level of 58.5% at the end of July 2009. The mobile segment, in July added 1 million mobile subscribers taking the total mobile subscriber base to 95.55 million.

Of the total base, Mobilink led the market with 29.5 million (31%) subscribers while Telenor stood second with 21.3 million (22%) followed by Ufone with 21% market share. The highest monthly additions were achieved by Mobilink with 414,000 new subscribers followed by Telenor and Warid with 406,000 and 255,000 new subscribers respectively.

As per PTA, there are 88.1 million mobile phone users out of the country’s population of 165 million while they were 306,000 in 2000.

Here are the figures:

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