Cellular companies, operating in Pakistan, have locally manufactured around 10.1 million mobile phone sets after the introduction of the Mobile Manufacturing Policy to encourage local production.
As per Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) Annual Report, 2021 released recently, the authority has so far issued mobile device manufacturing authorizations to 30 companies, attracting investments to the tune of US$120 million and creating 2,000 jobs.
The world’s leading brands like Samsung, Xiaomi, Oppo, Vivo, Nokia, Tecno, ZTE, etc. are now being manufactured in the country. Pakistan made history by exporting its first-ever smartphone consignment to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) under the ‘Manufactured in Pakistan’ tag.
Since the implementation of the Device Identification Registration and Blocking System (DIRBS), the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has blocked about 26.03 million fake and replica mobile devices.
Recently, 175,000 international mobile equipment identity (IMI) devices were reported stolen and also blocked. About 880,780 IMEI devices were identified as cloned and duplicated against 5.28 million MISDN banned on the network.
As per the report, the telecom sector of Pakistan remained at a high growth trajectory and generated the highest-ever revenue of Rs 644 billion during the financial year 2020-21 as compared to Rs 592 billion in the previous year.
The sector also attracted US$ 202 million in the shape of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and contributed Rs 226 billion to the national exchequer.
With successful spectrum auctions and license renewals in Pakistan and Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJ&K) and Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) during the period, an amount of US$ 486 million (FY 2021-till date) has been generated.
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