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PTA revenue increases to Rs850b,
The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority’s (PTA) revenue increased by 17 per cent to Rs850 billion, comparing the last year, Chairman Major General (retd) Hafeezur Rehman told caretaker Prime Minister Anwaarul Haq Kakar on Friday.
Rehman had called on Kakar in Islamabad where he presented the annual report of the PTA. It will be uploaded on the PTA website on January 29.
He added that the access to cellular services in the country had reached 90 per cent.
The number of cellular consumers had touched 192 million and high-speed broadband users reached 130 million during 2023, he added.
The prime minister lauded the services of the PTA chairman and his team in extending mobile phone and internet services to the common man.
In December 2022, the-then federal IT and Telecommunication Syed Aminul Haque said each Pakistani would have a mobile phone soon.
“But today in 2022, as of November 13, mobile phone subscribers have increased from 160 million to 195 million,” he said at the inaugural ceremony of the Pakistan-ITU Digital Inclusive Week in Islamabad on December 12, 2022.
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