Pakistan Telecom Industry Is Ahead of Other South Asian Countries
- Posted by Babar Bhatti on April 9th, 2007.
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Loading ...If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed or E-mail Newsletter. Thanks for visiting! [digg=http://www.digg.com/tech_news/Pakistan_telecom_industry_is_ahead_of_other_South_Asian_Countries]The Indian press reported the results of a survey which Pakistan ahead of India in telecom progress. Though the Indian telecom sector surges ahead with six million new mobile connections every month, its penetration among the lowest strata of society, especially in rural areas, is much less than in Pakistan and Sri Lanka, a recent survey has shown. In India, only 13.4 persons out of every 100 own a phone connection, while the corresponding figures in Pakistan and Sri Lanka are 29.4 and 36.6 respectively, the survey conducted by Colombo-based think-tank Lirneasia and AC Nielson said. Among the rural population interviewed in India, 94 per cent said they had used a phone in the past three months. The survey said while in Pakistan, the figure stood at 98 per cent which made a comparative study of the use of telecommunications in India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Thailand and The Philippines. The study interviewed a total of 3,200 people in these five countries. In India, 1,095 people were contacted. “To define the lowest strata of society, we took people from sections D and E of the social pyramid as per the market research concept called social economic classification (SEC),” said Lirneasia executive director Rohan Samarajeeva. “As per SEC, the market researcher asks a series of standard questions to determine the educational attainment of the chief householder and his or her occupation. The responses are then used to classify the person,” he said. The margin of error in the survey for India was only 1.5 per cent, Samarajeeva claimed. Among the economically backward population who do not own a phone, 82 per cent of respondents in India said they could not afford it, while the rest gave other reasons. In Pakistan 75 per cent and in Sri Lanka 72 per cent expressed their inability to afford a phone connection. Link to article is Here.
April 17th, 2007 at 6:03 pm
It was a good article, and is a little beneficial for me as i am also doing a assignment work for my MBA course, that is Marketing Management, on the Pakistan Telecom Industry but it should have some analysis and graphical representation in it.
Thanks
April 17th, 2007 at 6:19 pm
See more at my Telecom blog for Pakistan: http://telecompk.wordpress.com/
May 12th, 2007 at 4:11 am
I am not if importing billions of dollars of cellphone can be called a real advancement. We have been living in same kind of fool’s paradise before , when people used to say that Pakistan is way ahead of other south Asian counties e.g India, just because our politician travel in BMW and there in local cars. In my opinion, the advancement should be a sustainable one, which can helps a common man and makes their life easier. Though, progress in pak telco has created a lot of jobs, but Pakistan should also produce good technical minds, n much much more…
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May 15th, 2007 at 8:07 pm
I agree fully with the above comments. Unless we have stable sustainable development we cannot crow about any success. Our silly leaders love to prance around and waster government money which is mostly aid money for fighting terror but Pakistanis are not so stupid as is now being seen with the move to remove Musharraf dictatorship. The military must leave so that institutions can develop in Pakistan. The biggest turn off for Pakistan is Ptresident Musharraf. He seems not to know that he comes across horribly in the West. He cannot communicate properly in English but worse the content of his comments is insulting to Pakistan. For example why say nasty things about women in your own country. People still remember his negative comments about Pakistani women falsely saying they are being raped to get money and asylum. When he denied making these comments, the Washington Post provided a link showing the exact words used by him and had another stroy printed “Not only is he a woman hater but a lier”. It’s time to let a new generation of young educated people take the helm. Real development in Pakistan can only occur with institution building.
June 24th, 2007 at 5:45 am
I recently visited pakistan after ten years. I did see tremendous improvement in telecom industry and automotive sector in pakistan but the sanitary and road conditions of big cities like karachi and lahore are dangerously deteriorating. furthermore, nobody seems to be in charge of disposing of huge piles of trash, scattered shopping bags and dirty waterpools all around on streets.
The fast growing telecom industry that politicians bragg about is not the true reflective of overall pace of economy. The vast majority of population is still struggling for basic needs like potable water, sufficient electricity, sanitary conditions, medicare, education for all and clean air to breathe.
In addition, slow pace of development projects in karachi and Punjab are causing huge nervewreck to daily commuters. I noticed some of the highway projects in especially Punjab have been initiated but abandoned resulting in virtually no or uneven pavement.