Pakistan’s domestic manufacturing plants manufactured/ assembled over 14.08 million mobile phones in 6 months of 2022. In June 2022 there were 1.67 million mobiles manufactured/ assembled in local plants.
According to PTA locally manufactured/ assembled mobiles includes 54 percent are smartphones and 46 percent mobiles are 2G phones. Hence 1.14 million mobiles were commercially imported to Pakistan.
However, despite the increase in the local production of mobile phones, Pakistan imported mobile phones worth $1.978 billion during the fiscal year 2021-22, according to the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS).
The commercial imports of mobile handsets stood at 10.26 million in 2021 compared to 24.51 million in 2020, revealed the official data of PTA.
According to PTA data, the local manufacturing tendency indicates a favourable response to the PTA’s Mobile Device Manufacturing (MDM) Authorization regulatory system.
