The telecom operators providing broadband services in the country have added around 4.442 millionnew subscribers to their networks during 11 months of 2018.
The number of broadband subscribers including mobilewas 58.34 million till December 2017 which reached 62.77 million by November 2018, showing a reasonable growth.
The indicators about broadband subscribers by technology issued by Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) on Friday showed that the DSL users reached 15,99,122 till November 2018 against 15,90,623 users in December 2017, showing only around 9,000 increase.
The HFC users reached 60,783 till November 2018 against 61,479 users in December 2017, showing slightly decrease.
The number of Wimax users which were 1,00,967 till December 2017 has decreased to 81,796 till November 2018.
The users of EvDO also witnessed decrease of almost 70,000, reaching 3,42,872 in November 2018from 4,10,859 in December 2017.
The Mobile broadband has registered major contribution in overall growth and reached 60.
58 million by November 2018 from 56.1 million by December 2017.
The number of 3G/4G/LTE fixed users increased to 25,892 till November 2018 from 23,551 by December 2017.
The statistics further showed that Jazz's total count for 3g users stood at 14.069 million by November 2018, as compared to 14.83 million by December 2017. Jazz 4g users have jumped to 6.58 million by November 2018 from 4.3 million in December 2017.
Zong 3G subscribers decreased to 8.669 million by November 2018 from 9.267 in December 2017while number of 4G users jumped from 7.35 million by December 2017 to 9.33 million by November2018.
The number of 3G users of Telenor which were 10.51 million in December 2017 decreased to 9.323 million in November 2018. The number of its 4G users jumped from 3.1 million in December 2017 to 4.4 million by November 2018.
Ufone added around 1.6 million new 3G users to its networkduring 11 months and reached 8.21 million by November 2018 from6.6 million in December 2017.
Source: https://www.urdupoint.com/en/technology/operators-add-4442-mln-new-broadband-users-i-522294.html