Cell Phone-o-Phobia

Having a cell-phone has become essential in today's life, some of us are using it as entertainment and some of us are using as to become connected with family & friend and some uses for both purposes. Now every school going boy has a cell phone and most of the adults have been observed to have more than one cell-phone, one for entertainment & other for communicating. Cell phone phobia is playing major role in exploiting youth as some of youth start misusing it & service providers exploit it by providing Night Packages (Ab saari raat hogi free main baat, 300 sms @ Rs.1, 1hr @ Rs.2 only etc).

Its not just getting addicted to it, but some of them do not remain with the same phone they keep changing the new model, some keep changing it yearly, some half-yearly, some monthly and few of them even Weekly.

Following are the facts about Pakistan Telecommunication Industry as of Jan 2010:

• Pakistan Telecom Sector successfully implemented the Mobile Number Portability (MNP) and became first country in South Asia to have MNP.

• Almost 92 Percent of Pakistani Population has access to telecom services.

• Total Mobile Subscribers in the country are 90.5 million with cellular teledensity of 56 percent (as of October 2008)

• Telecom sector of Pakistan has a share of almost 2 percent in National GDP.

• Total Telecom revenues of Pakistan in 2007-08 reached Rs. 278 billion, which were 18 percent more than of previous year.

• Mobile Cellular Companies share 56 percent of total telecom revenues .