Bio Metric Verification. Mobile operators lost 22 Million consumers.

ISLAMABAD ( BMZ REPORT )

All mobile phone operators lost a combined 22 million subscribers with Mobilink still heading the market with its 33.42 million subscribers.
For the first time after bio-metric re-verification of SIMs earlier this year, Pakistan Telecommunication Authority has finally issued the stats for number of mobile phone users in the country; according to which the figure for mobile phone users in Pakitan dropped down to 114.7 million.
Telenor stands at second position with 31.49 million subscribers while Zong is sitting on third position of 22.10 million mobile phone users.
PTA and Interior Ministry will employ an audit firm to cross check cellular companies’ data and to make sure that all un-verified SIMs are blocked and not counted as active SIMs. But for now, unaudited stats for number of active SIMs are as following:

Mobilink       Ufone            CMPak          Telenor         Warid            Total

Before Bio Metric verification
Apr-15           38,149,067    18,257,842    27,217,698   37,313,551    10,927,421      131,865,579

After Bio Metric verification
May-15          32,945,683    17,365,830    21,836,725   30,737,198   9,517,399         112,402,835
Jun-15           33,424,268    17,809,315     22,102,968  31,491,263    9,914,003       114,741,817