Pakistan’s mobile phone imports fell by 13.6% in the first 4 months of FY25.
ISLAMABAD: The country imported mobile phones worth $420.799 million in the first four months (July-October) of the current financial year 2024-25, which is 10.46 percent higher than $469.969 million during the same period of the previous fiscal year. Negative growth was recorded. 2023-24.
Pakistan imported mobile phones worth $1.898 billion during FY 2023-24 compared to $570.071 million during FY 2022-23.
In rupee terms, the country imported mobile handsets worth Rs. 117.017 billion and a negative growth of 13.62% was recorded during the first four months of the current financial year. 135.468 billion during the same period of last financial year.
According to data released by the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS), Pakistan’s mobile phone imports increased by 69.89 percent on a month-on-month (mom) basis in October 2024 and reached $102.618 million in September. 174.338 million dollars in comparison. 2024.
On a year-on-year (YoY) basis, mobile phone imports witnessed an increase of 5.06% compared to USD 165.941 million in October 2023.
The country’s total telecom imports during July-October 2024 stood at $609.520 million and increased by 0.44% compared to $606.833 million during July-October 2023.
Total telecom imports increased by 53.92% to $235.349 million in October 2024 as compared to imports of $152.905 million in September 2024. On a year-on-year basis, overall telecom imports saw a growth of 13.27 percent as compared to imports. $13.27 million in October 2027.
Domestic manufacturing/assembling plants produced/assembled 22.59 million mobile handsets during the first nine months (January-September) of calendar year 2024 while 1.17 million were commercially imported.
Official data shows that 2.15 million mobile handsets were locally manufactured/assembled in September while 0.07 million mobile handsets were commercially imported.
22.59 million locally manufactured/assembled mobile phone handsets include 8.73 million 2G and 13.86 million smartphones.
Also, according to PTA data, 64 percent of mobile devices on Pakistan’s network are smartphones and 36 percent are 2G.
