{"id":3642,"date":"2025-06-20T14:32:42","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T09:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/?p=3642"},"modified":"2025-06-20T14:32:42","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T09:32:42","slug":"pakistan-pushes-forward-with-5g-plans-as-mobile-users-cross-200-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/2025\/06\/20\/pakistan-pushes-forward-with-5g-plans-as-mobile-users-cross-200-million","title":{"rendered":"\u00a0Pakistan Pushes Forward with 5G Plans as Mobile Users Cross 200 Million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\"><strong>ISLAMABAD: The government has reaffirmed its commitment to rolling out 5G services as Pakistan crosses a major digital milestone with 200 million mobile subscribers.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\">IT Minister Shaza Fatima Khawaja announced continued progress on next-generation networks while celebrating the country&#8217;s growing telecom penetration at a PTA-organized ceremony.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Digital Growth Accelerates Nationwide<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\">Pakistan&#8217;s telecom sector now serves 150 million broadband users alongside over 2 million fiber-to-home connections.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\">To mark this achievement, all mobile subscribers will receive free 2GB data and 200 minutes today through a simple dial-up code.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\">The PTA revealed broadband penetration has jumped from 53.6% to 60.8% since 2023, reflecting rapid digital adoption.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Bridging the Digital Divide<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\">Authorities are implementing special initiatives to boost female digital inclusion across educational institutions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\">Free Wi-Fi hotspots will operate for six months at selected women&#8217;s universities to enhance learning access.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\">200 locally assembled smartphones will be distributed to female users through a transparent lottery system.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\">The minister highlighted success in reducing the mobile internet gender gap, with women now comprising 38% of users.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: The government has reaffirmed its commitment to rolling out 5G services as Pakistan crosses a major digital milestone with 200 million mobile subscribers. IT Minister Shaza Fatima Khawaja announced continued progress on next-generation networks while celebrating the country&#8217;s growing telecom penetration at a PTA-organized ceremony. Digital Growth Accelerates Nationwide Pakistan&#8217;s telecom sector now serves &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":3645,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[1125,271,307,1820,1368,1308],"class_list":["post-3642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-connectivity","tag-economy","tag-innovation","tag-investments","tag-stocks","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3642"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3646,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3642\/revisions\/3646"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}