Pakistan’s Local Assembling Plants Produce 22.6 Million Mobiles in Nine Months

The local manufacturing/assembling plants manufactured/assembled 22.59 million mobile handsets during the first nine months (January-September) of the calendar year 2024 compared to 1.17 million imported commercially.  Official data revealed that the locally manufactured/assembled 2.15 million mobile handsets in September compared to 0.07 million imported commercially.  The locally manufactured/assembled 22.59 million mobile phone handsets included 8.73 million 2G and 13.86 million smartphones.  Besides, as per the PTA data, 64 percent of mobile devices are smartphones, and 36 percent are 2G on the Pakistan network.  The country imported mobile phones worth $246.472 million in the first quarter months (July-September) of the current fiscal year 2024-25, registering a negative growth of 18.93 percent when compared to $304.029 million during the same period of the last fiscal year 2023-24.