{"id":53409,"date":"2024-10-20T17:17:49","date_gmt":"2024-10-20T12:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=53409"},"modified":"2024-10-20T17:17:49","modified_gmt":"2024-10-20T12:17:49","slug":"pakistans-mobile-phone-imports-reach-246-million-in-q1-fy25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/business\/pakistans-mobile-phone-imports-reach-246-million-in-q1-fy25\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan\u2019s mobile phone imports reach $246 million in Q1 FY25"},"content":{"rendered":"

ISLAMABAD: The country imported mobile phones<\/a> worth $246.472 million in the first quarter (July-September) of the current fiscal year 2024-25, which is a negative 18.93 percent compared to $304.029 million during the same period of the previous fiscal year 2023-24. Growth was recorded.<\/p>\n

Pakistan imported mobile phones worth $1.898 billion during FY 2023-24, compared to $570.071 million during FY 2022-23.<\/p>\n

In rupee terms, the country imported mobile handsets worth Rs 68.612 billion during the first quarter of the current fiscal year, registering a negative growth of 22.86 percent as against Rs 88.945 billion during the same period of the previous fiscal year.<\/p>\n

According to data released by the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS<\/a>), Pakistan’s mobile phone imports increased by 29.32% on a month-on-month (mom) basis in September 2024 and reached $79.360 million in August 2024. 102.629 million dollars compared to the imports of).<\/p>\n

On a year-on-year (YoY) basis, mobile phone imports witnessed a negative growth of 17.62% compared to USD 124.576 million in September 2023.<\/p>\n

The total telecom imports in the country during July-September 2024 stood at $374.410 million and recorded a negative growth of 6.17% as compared to $399.048 million during July-September 2023.<\/p>\n

In September 2024, total telecom imports on MOM basis increased by 28.92% and stood at $153.144 million as compared to imports of $118.787 million in August 2024. On a year-on-year basis, overall telecom imports saw a negative growth of 3.53 percent compared to $157 million in September. 2023.<\/p>\n

Local manufacturing\/assembling plants produced\/assembled 20.44 million mobile handsets during the first eight months (January-August) of calendar year 2024, as against 1.1 million commercially imported.<\/p>\n

Official data showed that 1.49 million mobile handsets were produced locally in August while 0.1 million were commercially imported.<\/p>\n

The 20.44 million locally manufactured\/assembled mobile phone handsets include 7.71 million 2G and 12.73 million smartphones.<\/p>\n

Also, according to PTA data, 62 percent of mobile devices are smartphones, and 38 percent are 2G on the Pakistan network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ISLAMABAD: The country imported mobile phones worth $246.472 million in the first quarter (July-September) of the current fiscal year 2024-25, which is a negative 18.93 percent compared to $304.029 million during the same period of the previous fiscal year 2023-24. Growth was recorded. Pakistan imported mobile phones worth $1.898 billion during FY 2023-24, compared to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":30484,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2320,2632,321],"class_list":["post-53409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-pakistan-bureau-of-statistics","tag-pbs","tag-mobile-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53409"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53411,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53409\/revisions\/53411"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}