Pakistan’s mobile phone imports decline 66% in 1st half of FY 2023 - The Siasat Daily

Islamabad: Pakistan’s mobile telephone imports declined by 66 percent successful the archetypal fractional of the existent fiscal twelvemonth 2022-2023, compared to the aforesaid play of the past fiscal year, according to authoritative figures.

The mobile telephone imports into the state were recorded astatine $362.86 cardinal successful July-December of the ongoing fiscal twelvemonth arsenic against the imports of $1,090.64 cardinal during the aforesaid months of the fiscal twelvemonth 2021-22, showing a diminution of 66.73 percent, the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) figures revealed.

Meanwhile, connected a year-to-year basis, the import of mobile phones besides dipped by 69.1 percent during the period of December 2022 erstwhile compared to the aforesaid period of past year, Xinhua quality bureau quoted the Bureau arsenic saying.

However, connected a month-on-month basis, the imports of mobile phones witnessed an summation of 12.04 percent during December 2022, arsenic compared to the imports of $64.52 cardinal during November 2022, according to PBS data.