{"id":75366,"date":"2021-04-05T17:28:06","date_gmt":"2021-04-05T12:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=75366"},"modified":"2021-04-05T17:28:11","modified_gmt":"2021-04-05T12:28:11","slug":"pta-reaches-100-mn-broadband-subscriptions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pta-reaches-100-mn-broadband-subscriptions.html","title":{"rendered":"PTA reaches 100 mn milestone for broadband subscriptions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Islamabad: The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) on Friday announced that broadband subscriptions in Pakistan had reached a milestone of 100 million subscriptions, according to news sources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pta-further-extends-deadline-for-vpn-registration-of-businesses-public.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">PTA further extends deadline for VPN registration of businesses, public<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reportedly, PTA made the said announcement on its official Twitter. The authority said that there were fewer than 2 million subscribers in 2012, but after the launch of 3G services, the number spiked to 16 million and now stands at the figure of 100 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Moreover, the authority has also claimed that 87% of the national population has now access to<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/software-technology-park-inaugurated-in-gilgit.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> internet<\/a>\/broadband connections at one of the lowest prices in the region. It also claimed that the broadband services are being provided over 3G\/4G networks with 17.7 Mbps average download speed and 11.3 Mbps average upload speed \u2013 which is higher when compared with other regional countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/science-technology-ministry-offers-support-internet-broadband-services.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Science &amp; Technology Ministry to extend support to enhance internet, broadband services<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reportedly, mobile data prices have dipped to only 0.70%of the gross national income (GNI) per capita \u2013 which is significantly lower than the \u2018UN Broadband Commission\u2019s recommendation of less than 2%\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) on Friday announced that broadband subscriptions in Pakistan had reached a milestone of 100 million subscriptions, according to news sources. Read: PTA further extends deadline for VPN registration of businesses, public Reportedly, PTA made the said announcement on its official Twitter. The authority said that there were fewer than 2 million subscribers in 2012, but after the launch of 3G services, the number spiked to 16 million and now stands at the figure of 100 million. Moreover, the authority has also claimed that 87% of the national population has now access to internet\/broadband connections at one of the lowest prices in the region. It also claimed that the broadband services are being provided over 3G\/4G networks with 17.7 Mbps average download speed and 11.3 Mbps average upload speed \u2013 which is higher when compared with other regional countries. Read: Science &amp; Technology Ministry to extend support to enhance internet, broadband services Reportedly, mobile data prices have dipped to only 0.70%of the gross national income (GNI) per capita \u2013 which is significantly lower than the \u2018UN Broadband Commission\u2019s recommendation of less than 2%\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":68860,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15016,15017],"tags":[27278,45648],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-75366","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-developments","8":"category-notices-announcements","9":"tag-pakistan-telecommunication-authority-pta","10":"tag-pta-reaches-100-mn-milestone-for-broadband-subscriptions","11":"cat-15016-id","12":"cat-15017-id"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>PTA reaches 100 mn broadband subscriptions - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Islamabad: The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) on Friday announced that broadband subscriptions in Pakistan had reached a milestone of 100\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pta-reaches-100-mn-broadband-subscriptions.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"PTA reaches 100 mn broadband subscriptions - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Islamabad: The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) on Friday announced that broadband subscriptions in Pakistan had reached a milestone of 100\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pta-reaches-100-mn-broadband-subscriptions.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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