Telecom sector of Pakistan: Potential, challenges and business opportunities

• Cellular subscriber’s teledensity and broadband growth of Pakistan in the last decade.
• FDI, telecom investment and revenue generation in Pakistan during the last decade.
• Challenges related to future telecom progress in Pakistan.
• Business opportunities and recommendations for future telecom growth.
• Impact of 3G/4G services on social and corporate sectors.

Pakistan has exercised major developments recently in the Telecom sector. The main focus is to extend maximum benefits to the general user in terms of having accessibility to the modern services and better quality of service as a result of competitive environment amongst the network operators. The international investors also have directly contributed towards the economy as a result of which further horizons for exploring and improving the broadband market have emerged. In this paper, we have presented the growing telecom access and statistics, investment opportunities in the sector, modern applications and the broadband developments in line with the changing orientation of the telecom industry of Pakistan.