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Did Mush also invent the Internet ?
No. That was Al Gore. :D
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Almost 45% of Pakistani's now have a mobile phone.
That figure was less than 0.2% in 1999.
man you are flip flop just like Maulana Diesel... read your own posts right in this very thread:
When Musharraf took over it was just a few tens of thousands who had cell phones.
As this link from Jan 2005 states there were only 0.2 million mobile phone subscribers in Pakistan 1999 when Musharraf took over.
and now:
That figure was less than 0.2% in 1999.
0.2% means 320,000 Pakistanis had mobile phones.
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and now: 0.2% means 32 million Pakistanis had mobile phones.
Brother: 0.2 percent had mobile phone in 1999 meant 260 thousands had mobile phone in 1999. Now the figure is that over 70 million or 70000 thousands have mobile phone in Pakistan. Or for every one person in 1999 that had mobile phone, today there are around 270 people that have mobile phone.
[In 1999, population of Pakistan was around 130 million and 0.2 percent of 130 million is 260 thousand. 0.2 percent of 160 million is 320 thousand, not 32 million. 32 million is 20 percent of 160 million].
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You are right ... its not 32 million, my bad.
Just curious, what is your source for 130 mill in 1999? I thought it was around 160 already in 1999.
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Brother: 0.2 percent had mobile phone in 1999 meant 260 thousands had mobile phone in 1999. Now the figure is that over 70 million or 70000 thousands have mobile phone in Pakistan. Or for every one person in 1999 that had mobile phone, today there are around** 270 people** that have mobile phone.
I don't think situation is that bad :D
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You are right ... its not 32 million, my bad, rather 320,000. Pakistan's population is 160 million.
It is Ok brother I did realise that you made unintentional error that can happen with anyone, I just pointed out to clear that :).
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Thanks for that Saleem. :k:
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I don't think situation is that bad :D
:) ...
Well, that is what happens when one quote half and miss the other half. That shows how things get corrupted :) I wrote that for every 1 there are 270 and not just 270 :D
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You are welcome 
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Well, it seems that I might be wrong :). Actual population could have been 135 million in 1999, not 130 million that I mentioned. In 1998, according to Pakistani government, population of Pakistan was 132 million.:halo:
One can safely assume that population must have increased to 135 million by 1999, as increase in population of Pakistan was slightly over 2 percent during those days (today it is 1.8 percent).
http://www.statpak.gov.pk/depts/pco/statistics/area_pop/area_pop.html
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Mashallah. Great achievement. :k:
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Another bad news for nay sayers
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Mobilink to invest $500m more in Pakistan
By Romail Kenneth
KARACHI: Mobilink GSM has so far invested $2 billion in Pakistan and in the coming years it is planning to further invest $500 million. This was stated by Omar Manzur, Public Relations Manager, Mobilink Pakistan during a media training workshop for the journalist in Istanbul. “Currently we have laid 6,000 km fiber optic lines in different cities of Pakistan and after lying additional 500 km fiber optic lines Mobilink GSM will become a complete telecom service provider in Pakistan,” Manzar added.
He said, after completion Mobilink will divert its traffic on this fiber optic network, which would be available to the other operators also for their traffic. Mobilink has always wanted to take the lead in all the sectors and in term of infrastructure it would not be relying on any other companies. “Currently our network is based on 2.5 generation and we will upgrade this according to the requirement of our subscribers.”
Currently more than 28 million customers are using Mobilink services across the nation. With more than 5,000 cities, towns, and villages throughout Pakistan on its network, it will be covering the entire length and breadth of Pakistan, he added.
Mobilink Pakistan organized journalist training on the telecommunication industry in Istanbul. The trainer Ms. Eileen M. Wallis, Managing Director of the Portsmouth Group, one of the Middle East’s leading communications consultancies, conducted the workshop. The workshop covered all issues related to quality of service, call tariffs, upcoming technologies, consumer reaction, role of regulator and connectivity problems in the telecom sector. Print and electronic media journalists from all over the country covering the beats of IT and Telecom participated in the workshop. The workshop focused on the telecommunication industry especially the mobile phone sector progress rate and the challenges faced by the operators and its solution. To improve the performance of telecom reporters different suggestions and advices were forwarded and at the end of the workshop Mobilink shields were presented to the participants.
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007\11\16\story_16-11-2007_pg5_9
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** Mobilink to invest $500m more in Pakistan**
Mashallah. Good to see so much investment in Pakistan, despite people trying to cause anarchy.
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^
Yup, mobilink further investments show that millions more Pakistani's will be buying cell phones for a long time.
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Ufone to invest $150m in network expansion
KARACHI: Ufone has announced to invest US$ 150 million in network expansion, which will add up more than 1000 additional cities towns and highways in its footprint. It is estimated that by the end of June 2008 the company will be covering more than 4500 cities, towns, villages and all major highways in the country, a press release said here Thursday.
The contract has been awarded to Huawei Technologies, which is one of the most rapidly growing telecom vendors globally and awarding another contract to Huawei shows the company’s confidence in professionalism and state of the art technology. Huawei is the vendor of choice in latest 3G Telecommunications Networks, 31 of the world’s top 50 operators worldwide are using their technical infrastructure.
Walid Irshaid, President and CEO of PTCL while speaking at contract awarding ceremony said that an expansion contract of this magnitude indicates Ufone’s aggressive strategy towards market growth and expansion, in the wake of tremendous growth and potential of Pakistan’s cellular market. The previous Network Roll-out phase of $550 million was the single largest expansion plan in the history of Pakistan and this region. That record-breaking execution by Huawei is near completion now and this new contract shows Etisalat’s commitment to the Pakistani market and will also boost investors’ confidence towards Pakistan. The project was approved by the Board of Directors to invest in infrastructure and to provide best quality network and facilities its customers. In addition to the major investment commitment, Etisalat brings its extensive experience of Telecom Industry to Pakistan to ensure that THE company has the best network in the country.
Yi Xiang CEO Huawei Pakistan stated that Huawei is fully committed to Pakistan telecom industry as well as implementing this new network expansion contract in the fastest and most seamless fashion. staff report
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007\11\30\story_30-11-2007_pg5_5
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**Pakistan adds 3 mln mobile subscribers in November
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**The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has recorded a total of 74.59 million mobile subscribers in Pakistan at the end of November, up from 71.53 million subscribers in October. **Mobilink had the highest number of subscribers with 29.78 million subscribers, followed by Ufone with 15.93 million subscribers, Telenor with 13.91 million subscribers, Warid with 12.85 million subscribers, Paktel with 1.78 million subscribers and Instaphone with 0.33 million subscribers. The mobile density was 46.58 in November compared to 44.51 in September.
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Alhamdulilallah. Amazing. Pakistanis under the great leadership of President Musharaf now have so much more purchasing power. God Bless President Musharaf. Long may the prosperity it continue. :k:
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absolutly, pakistan is now going places as the people are getting richer with much more purchasing power.
MUSHARRAF ZINDABAD, PAKISTAN PAINDABAD
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lol ppl are getting rich because they can afford a prepaid cell phone! lol