COUNTRY REPORT OF PAKISTAN ON INITIATIVES OF INFORMATION SOCIETY

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1 COUNTRY REPORT OF PAKISTAN ON INITIATIVES OF INFORMATION SOCIETY by Shahzada Alam Malik Chairman Pakistan Telecommunication Authority

2 CONTENTS: Country Profile Telecom Sector De-Regulation & Liberalization ICT Initiatives in Pakistan Implementation Strategy for Tokyo Declaration

3 Country Profile: Area: 803,940 sq. km Population: Million Literacy: 42.7% GDP per capita: US $ 480 GDP-Growth rate: 2.6% Export: US $ 9.2 billion Imports: US $ 10.7 billion Size of Telecom US $ 2.0 billion Industry:

4 Telecom Sector (Current Status) Access Lines Installed (ALI) 4.3 M Access Line in Service 3.6 M Tele density 2.65% NWD Stations 1750 Percentage of Digitalization 100% Mobile Telephone Base 1.2 M Internet Users 2 M Domestic Traffic Minutes 4 Billion Int l Traffic Minutes 1.3 Billion

5 Telecom Sector Financial Size of Telecom Market(US $ 2 billion) Mobile 20% Financial size of the Telecommunication Market of Pakistan percentage share ( ) ISP 12% Others 4% Payphone 4% Fixed 60%

6 Telecom Sector Basic Telephony Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) has monopoly upto 31 st December Entry of new operators in long distance & local from January 2003.

7 Telecom Sector Growth in Basic Telephony Teledensity (%) Lines Capacity (million)

8 Cellular Mobile Operator Mobilink Telecom Sector Subscribers 555,859 Cities covered 29 Pakcom 310, Paktel 217, Ufone 134,860 11

9 Cellular Mobile Industry Telecom Sector Ufone 14% Paktel 17% Mobilink 46% Instaphone 23%

10 Telecom Sector Cellular Growth 1,400,000 1,200,000 1,000, ,000 Cellular Users 600, , ,000 CPP Jan-95 Jan-96 Jan-97 Jan-98 Jan-99 Jan-00 Jan-01 Jan-02 (400% growth of cellular users in the last 10 months as compared to the whole of the last 11 months, whereas 125% growth has been noted with introduction of CPP.)

11 Telecom Sector (Payphone) Payphones from Mar % growth in

12 Telecom Sector Internet: 121 Licenses 60 are operational. 2 million users. 40% to 50% Annual growth rate.

13 De-Regulation & Liberalization The Deregulation process started in early 90s. The process strengthened with the promulgation of the Pakistan Telecommunication (Re-Organization) Act 1996, under which Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) was established to regulate the telecommunication sector. Telecommunication services such as cellular mobile telephony, Internet, Data Communication, Trunked Radio service, Radio Paging and value added services are already deregulated

14 De-Regulation & Liberalization In 2nd phase to open the sector with full competition by Jan 2003, a De-Regulation policy has been framed and is at final stage of its approval from the Government. The salient features of De-regulation policy are: opening of licenses for long distance local fixed telephony.

15 Deregulation & Liberalization The salient features of De-regulation policy are: Opening of local and long distance telephony. Transparent procedure for award of licenses. Low fee structure. Incentives for investors.

16 ICT Initiatives in Pakistan Available Bandwidth of 32 Mb/s (Aug 2000) increased to 410 Mb/s (June 2002). Bandwidth rates reduced from US $ 86,000/E1 to US $ 6000 (July 2001). Further reduction in bandwidth cost is under consideration. Deployment of optical fibre increased from 53 cities to 240 cities during The SDH/PDH (565/622 Mb/s) backbone to be upgraded to 10 Gb/s by February 2003.

17 ICT Initiatives in Pakistan HUMAN DEVELOPMENT (IT EDUCATION) 500% increase in Science & Technology budget from Rs. 120 million to Rs. 6 billion. Utilization of 75% of Science & Technology budget for IT education and capacity building. IT extra budgetary allocation of Rs. 5 billion for 34 existing universities for IT education.

18 ICT Initiatives in Pakistan HUMAN DEVELOPMENT (IT EDUCATION) 7 new IT universities established. 1 virtual university established and linked to 137 remote study centers throughout the country.

19 ICT Initiatives in Pakistan VIRTUAL UNIVERSITY Educational Optical Fibre backbone. Direct Information Access: 60 Universities and colleges 2500 schools. Upto 10, 000 institutions linked via dial up intranet for information access.

20 ICT Initiatives in Pakistan E-COMMERCE Formation of E-Commerce Task Force. Framing of IT Law consistent with IT policy. Salient features of IT law are: Electronic signature authentication Legal recognition of electronic documents etc

21 E-Strategy ICT Initiatives in Pakistan E-Government Electronic Service Delivery to Citizen Internet / Citizen Online ATM Bill/Levy Payment Internal Integration Efficiency & Productivity Databases E-Offices Infrastructure Publicity Electronic Communication

22 ICT Initiatives in Pakistan E-Government Ministries and Government departments web sites being developed. 70% of these web sites have been developed. Integration, Efficiency and Productivity and E-Service delivery being implemented by June 2003.

23 Implementation of Tokyo Declaration STRATEGY: ICT infrastructure development through private sector participation. Facilitation of new investment through Liberalization and De-Regulation. Target teledensity of 5% by Increasing Teledensity by expanding the existing telecommunication network and by encouraging the new telecom companies.

24 Implementation of Tokyo Declaration STRATEGY Expansion of rural telecommunication network Implementation of USO strategy for remote and under develop areas. Reduction of tariffs for all telecommunication services.

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