Seventeen various assembly plants have produced 17.62 million mobile handsets including 4G-enabled smartphones locally in Pakistan in the past two years to cater to the increasing local demand of the country.
According to the annual report of the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA), these plants produced over 11 million mobile devices, including 4G smartphones in 2019, only. In the first nine months of 2020, the plants assembled around 6.62 million devices, out of which 0.68 million were 4G-enables devices.
The telecom regulatory under the ministry concerned has issued licenses to 29 local assembly plants across the country, of which 17 plants are operational at present.
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