The total broadband subscription in the country has surpassed 18 million with mobile internet penetration showing a reasonable growth till end of July this year.

Almost all of this growth is due to the roll-out of hight-speed mobile internet which was introduced in April last year.The Cellular Mobile Operators (CMOs) overall user base, which decreased by 18 per cent to 114.7 million subscribers in fiscal year 2015 amid the biometric verification drive, also showed signs of recovery in the first month of current fiscal year.

With regard to market share, the data showed that market position of five mobile phone operators, however, remained the same as Mobilink ended at the top with 34 million subscriptions at end of July, followed by Telenor Pakistan, which finished second with 32.5 million users in the same period.

Zong remained third in the mobile broadband with 3 million users on its 3G network and 132,502 on the 4G platform.Ufone's 3G user base improved slightly to 2.6 million while Warid boasted 121,602 users on its 4G/Long term Evolution (LTE) network at the end of July.

The data showed that till July, number of technology-wise broadband subscribers included DSL 1,480,672 users, HFC 43,362 users, WiMax 487,582 users, FTTH 19,490 users, EvDO 1,334,725 users and the number of others users was 6,089.