According to a recent research, the cheapest mobile data worldwide is available in India, whereas the list of 230 countries is Pakistan's No. 33.
In this study, mobile data prices have been reviewed in 230 countries of the world.
According to a website called Prices 'Cable', the average price of one gigabytes (GB) mobile data in India is equal to 26 US dollars, while the average cost of such data is as much as US $ 1.85 in Pakistan.
The value of one gigabytite data in Pakistan is more than seven times the current average price in India.
Mobile data is also less than Pakistan's mobile data in Asia.
This list is Bangladesh 13th (0.99 USD), Iran is 19th (1.28 dollars) and the Afghanistan 26th (1.60 US dollar). Although Pakistan's neighboring country is economically stable and internet users are also in large numbers, but China is ranked 165th in the list and here's an average of US $ 9.89 per gigabytite.
Prices are about half of Asian countries in the cheapest countries. Only in Taiwan, China and South Korea, it is being charged more than the average global price.
In this report only packages have been found on SIM, while it has also been included in the facility of companies in each country.
Facts about Pakistan in
this study have been told in reference to Pakistan that there is an average of US $ 1.85 or 258.73 rupees per gigabytes of mobile data.
One of the cheapest Gigabytes data packages in Pakistan is US $ 0.29, while the most expensive in US $ 7.15.
For this research, 58 service plans were found in Pakistan and these samples were taken on November 16, 2018.
According to the figures released in January 2019 by the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority, the number of mobile users in Pakistan is 155 million (15.5 crores).
The number of users using 3G and 4G is 63 million (or 6.3 million), while Broadband users have exceeded 65 million (6.5 million).
Price in other countries
The report states that a gigabyte of mobile data around the world is US $ 8.53.
A gigabytite data in the United States is US $ 12.37, and it is ranked 182, whereas the UK value is US $ 6.66. The UK is ranked 136th in the list.
Mobile data is the highest in the world in Zimbabwe, where average one gigabytic is US $ 75.20.
The cheapest mobile data in Western Europe is in Finland and it is US $ 1.16. It is less than two US dollars in Denmark, Monaco and Italy.
While it is the cheapest in the country of East Europe in Poland, where a gigabytic value is US $ 1.32, Romania is 1.89 US dollars, and Slovenia is US $ 2.21.
The countries of Africa are found to have the highest difference in mobile data. In Rwanda, Sudan and Congo, it is less than a US dollar, whereas the same as other African countries such as Equatorial Guinea and St. Helena, have more than US $ 50.
The cheapest data (one
gigabytite )
新 - - $ 0.26 Kyrgyzstan - $ 0.27
Kazakhstan - $ 0.49
Vericon - $ 0.51
Rwanda - $ 0.56
tallest data (one
gigabytte ) Mambabwe - $ 75.20
Aston Guinea - $ 65.83
St. Helena - $ 55.47
jzayr Falkland - $ 47.39
jbuty - $ 37.92
affects the cost factors
Talking to the BBC, BBC, Vajpayee, CEO of the new service provider, Internet Service Provider, said that the major reasons for the expensive mobile data in Pakistan have to be higher than the government's fees and the costs on operations. .
"In recent years, trustworthy and unsuccessful supply of electricity in Pakistan has been a major issue for the service providers. And to deal with it, every other place where towers have been planted, there have also been arrangements for other sources of electricity which have increased the expense to a considerable extent.
When asked whether India's license fee was less than Pakistan, he said that the number of consumers in India is far greater than Pakistan and if the service providers are found based on the basis, then the license in Pakistan The fee will be higher.
He further said that another problem in the costs of operations is to pay municipal or urban committees to the towers on a monthly basis.
'Mobile data value can be reduced in Pakistan by improving the infrastructure of providing services and reducing the license fee.'
Telecom affairs analyst Don Hundle says that there are many reasons for controversy in mobile data prices in different countries of the world.
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