ISLAMABAD: The mobile phone imports into the country increased by 13.06 percent to US $539.583 million during first nine months of the year 2014-15 over the same period of last year's imports of $477.255 million.
On month on month and year on year basis, the cell phone import in March also increased by 1.05 percent and 64.94 percent when compared to the import in February 2015 and March 2014 respectively, according to the data of Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS).
The mobile phone import during March 2015 stood at $73.929 million against the import of $73.161 million in February 2015 and $44.822 million in March 2014.
Similarly, the overall telecom imports also increased by 14.70 percent during July-March (2014-15) over the same period of last year.
The imports of telecom into the country during first nine months of current fiscal year, were recorded at $1.071 billion against the imports of $933.543 million in July-March 2014-15.
On year on year basis the telecom imports telecom imports in March increased by 8.46 percent from $100.144 million in March 2014 to $108.619 percent in March this year whereas on month on month basis the telecom imports decreased from $115.454 million in February 2015 to $108.619 million in March 2015 thus showing 5.92 percent decrease.
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