The subscriber base of WiMax and EvDO services of WLL sector has shown 73 percent growth in last 6 months while the subscriber base has jumped from 190,947 in October 2009 to 331,416 in April 2010 according to the data compiled by Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA). The PTA is fully supporting the telecom industry and making efforts in all possible ways to help operators.
PTA is supportive of mergers and acquisitions, and has been approving such requests on case to case basis. The Infrastructure sharing between the operators, pursuing cases with the Government to standardise procedures for obtaining NOCs from various federal/provincial government departments for deployment of infrastructure and to reduce taxes on telecom services are some of the areas where PTA has supported operators.-PR