Episode 530
Telecommunications in Pakistan
Tue, 2018-Oct-16 00:03 UTC
Length - 2:13
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The random article for Tuesday, 16 October 2018 is Telecommunications in Pakistan.
Telecommunications in Pakistan describes the overall environment for the growing mobile telecommunications, telephone, and Internet markets in Pakistan.
In 2008 Pakistan was the world's third-fastest growing telecommunications market. Pakistan's telecom infrastructure is improving dramatically with foreign and domestic investments into fixed-line and mobile networks; fiber systems are being constructed throughout the country to aid in network growth.. The major growth in mobile telephony was triggered by two steps taken by Prof. Atta-ur-Rahman FRS when he was Federal Minister of Science & technology. These were to introduce a "Calling Party Pays" (CPP) regime under which no charges are paid by the call receiving party on mobile phone calls. The second was the launching of UFone as a government owned mobile phone company that competitive call rates that led to strong market competition. The impact of these two measures has been the expansion of mobile telephony form 0.3 million mobile phones in 2001 to 160 million mobile phones by 2018
This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 00:03 UTC on Tuesday, 16 October 2018.
For the full current version of the article, go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications_in_Pakistan.
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