{"id":57125,"date":"2024-11-24T22:56:33","date_gmt":"2024-11-24T17:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=57125"},"modified":"2024-11-24T22:56:33","modified_gmt":"2024-11-24T17:56:33","slug":"pakistans-mobile-phone-imports-down-13-6-in-first-4-months-of-fy25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/business\/pakistans-mobile-phone-imports-down-13-6-in-first-4-months-of-fy25\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan\u2019s mobile phone imports down 13.6% in first 4 months of FY25"},"content":{"rendered":"

ISLAMABAD: The country imported mobile phones<\/a> worth $420.799 million in the first four months (July to October) of the current fiscal year 2024-25, registering a negative growth of 10.46 percent compared to $469.969 million during the same period of the previous fiscal year. 2023-24.<\/p>\n

Pakistan imported mobile phones worth $1.898 billion during the fiscal year 2023-24, while it was $570.071 million during the fiscal year 2022-23.<\/p>\n

In rupee terms, the country imported mobile handsets worth Rs. 117.017 billion during the first four months of the current fiscal year and registered a negative growth of 13.62 percent compared to Rs. 135.468 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\u2019s mobile phone imports in October 2024 increased by 69.89 percent on a month-on-month (MoM) basis and stood at $174.338 million as compared to imports of $102.618 million in September 2024.<\/p>\n

On a year-on-year (YoY) basis, mobile phone imports saw a 5.06 percent increase as compared to $165.941 million in October 2023.<\/p>\n

The country\u2019s overall telecom imports during July-October 2024 stood at $609.520 million and increased by 0.44 percent as compared to $606.833 million during July-October 2023.<\/p>\n

Overall telecom imports grew by 53.92% on a MoM basis in October 2024 to $235.349 million as compared to imports of $152.905 million in September 2024. On a year-on-year basis, overall telecom imports witnessed a growth of 13.27% as compared to imports of $13.27 million in October 2027.<\/p>\n

Local manufacturing\/assembling plants manufactured\/assembled 22.59 million mobile handsets during the first nine months (January-September) of calendar year 2024 while 1.17 million were imported commercially.<\/p>\n

Official data shows that 2.15 million mobile handsets were manufactured\/assembled locally in September while 0.07 million mobile handsets were imported commercially.<\/p>\n

The 22.59 million locally manufactured\/assembled mobile phone handsets include 8.73 million 2G and 13.86 million smartphones.<\/p>\n

In addition, according to PTA data, 64 percent of mobile devices on Pakistan\u2019s network are smartphones and 36 percent are 2G.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ISLAMABAD: The country imported mobile phones worth $420.799 million in the first four months (July to October) of the current fiscal year 2024-25, registering a negative growth of 10.46 percent compared to $469.969 million during the same period of the previous fiscal year. 2023-24. Pakistan imported mobile phones worth $1.898 billion during the fiscal year […]<\/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":[2632,18941],"class_list":["post-57125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-pbs","tag-made-in-pakistan-mobile-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57125","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=57125"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57126,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57125\/revisions\/57126"}],"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=57125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}