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Broadband Penetration in Pakistan - Is Pakistan underserved?

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KO
on February 10, 2008
in Internet
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Yes, and how! A study commissioned by the Ministry of Information Technology:

I’ve copied the paper to this website: Broadband Penetration Study Pakistan Feb 2008. The link on the Ministry’s website is so horrendously long that I didn’t want to go near it! The gist of the paper is correct, Pakistan as a whole is lagging behind in widespread internet availability. Continue reading ‘Broadband Penetration in Pakistan - Is Pakistan underserved?’

PTA Annual Report 2007

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KO
on November 22, 2007
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Internet Users Pakistan 2007 The PTA’s annual report on the state of communications in Pakistan is available online here.

Of interest is that the report says Wateen Telecom’s Wimax network can support 1 million plus users, making it the largest Wimax deployment in the world - and that it is expected to launch at the end of this year.

At the present moment, Pakistan has about 79,000 broadband users - which for a country of almost 170 million remains staggeringly low. Many of these 70,000 broadband users are on 128kbps bandwidth limited connections, which isn’t broadband, as the PTA report itself points out.

My own estimate is that the true number of broadband connections in Pakistan is a fourth of PTA’s number - this is the generous estimate, and could be as low as a sixth of PTA’s number. So we’re looking at only 13,000 to 20,000 broadband connections in Pakistan! On the bright side, the report estimates that there will be 5 million broadband connections by 2010.

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