Pakistan cell phone subscribers tops 70 million

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Re: Pakistan cell phone subscribers tops 70 million

@king_faisal

and you must be pakistani journalist because of your ability to pull facts out of thin air and make claims that have no basis in reality.

if technology cost rather than purchasing power and industry policy were the main factor in spreading mobile phones, then penetration rate would be the same in all south asian countries given that no country in the region has any mobile production facility. and yet mobile penetration rate in pak is much higher than india and bangladesh. reason why pak is in the lead should obvious to most people exception being people who offer sighting of satellite dishes in the 90’s as evidence of economic boom.

http://internetcommunications.tmcnet.com/topics/broadband-mobile/articles/14259-grameenphone-signs-with-sicap-mobile-reverse-charging-bangladesh.htm

Grameenphone leads in the Bangladeshi market where a total of six operators compete for the 32 million current mobile users. Grameenphone has almost 16 million customers and with the mobile penetration rate in Bangladesh being below 25 percent, is looking at strong growth.

dude u r jumping from one leg to another. What happened to Nigeria’s oil economic boom … already went bust??

According to you, spread of cell phone usage is a sign of economic boom but wide use of sat. dishes in early 90s wasn’t ??? dish antennas used to cost pretty much same as today’s cell phones. Were they dropping down free of cost from heavens? you guys are just so blind in your love of the dictator that one day you might as well be calling the creation of earth moon & stars as miracles of Musharraf. Like I said earlier he sure has done some good things for the country which should be acknowledged & appreciated fairly but lets not blow it out of proportions. If a ragtag country like Nigeria with economy in total shambles can have 44 million cell phone subscribers, whats the big deal if Pakistan has 70 million users today and how can it be regarded as a sign of the so called economic boom under Musharraf’s watch?

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