According to the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA), local manufacturing plants produced 7.16 million mobile phones in the first three months of 2022, compared to 0.61 million commercially imported units.
In addition, 3.52 million mobile phone handsets were manufactured in March, compared to 0.15 million commercial imports.
In 2021, there were 24.66 million locally manufactured mobile phone devices, up from 13.05 million in 2020, an increase of 88 percent.
According to PTA data, commercial imports of handsets in 2021 were 10.26 million, down from 24.51 million in 2020.
4.33 million 2G phones and 2.83 million 3G and 4G smartphones were among the 7.16 million handsets produced locally.
According to the PTA data, smartphones account for 53% of handsets, while 2G handsets account for 47%.
Despite the increase in local smartphone production, mobile phones worth $1.596 billion were imported during the first nine months (July-March) of 2021-22, up 3.93 percent from $1.535 billion during the same time the previous year.
According to the data, the local manufacturing trend reflects a positive uptake of the PTA’s Mobile Device Manufacturing (MDM) Authorization regulatory regime, with local manufacturing resulting in the production of 24.66 million phones in a year, including 10.06 million 4G smartphones, in the first year of the regime.
Pakistan also made history by shipping its first smartphone shipment to the United Arab Emirates with the ‘Manufactured in Pakistan’ label.
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