{"id":241170,"date":"2022-01-28T08:31:44","date_gmt":"2022-01-28T03:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/?p=241170"},"modified":"2022-01-28T08:31:44","modified_gmt":"2022-01-28T03:31:44","slug":"sweden-interested-to-invest-in-pakistans-ict-sector-envoy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/sweden-interested-to-invest-in-pakistans-ict-sector-envoy\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweden interested to invest in Pakistan\u2019s ICT sector: envoy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> ISLAMABAD<br \/>\nSweden has shown interest for investment in Pakistan\u2019s information communication technologies (ICT) sector. This transpired during a meeting between Ambassador of Sweden to Pakistan Henrik Persson and Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) Chairman Maj Gen (retd) Amir Azeem Bajwa at PTA headquarters on Thursday.<br \/>\nThe chairman PTA appreciated the ambassador\u2019s proactive engagement with stakeholders to promote investment and bilateral business opportunities. He apprised the ambassador of expansion and innovation taking place in Pakistan\u2019s telecom sector under the Prime Minister\u2019s \u201cDigital Pakistan Vision\u201d.<br \/>\nDuring the meeting, investment opportunities for Swedish companies in Pakistan\u2019s ICT sector were discussed.<br \/>\nBoth sides agreed to enhance cooperation between Sweden and Pakistan in the ICT sector.<br \/>\nMeanwhile, the number of 3G and 4G service users in Pakistan has significantly increased and reached 108 million by end of December 2021, as per detail available at the official site of the PTA website.<br \/>\nPakistan has around 189 million mobile phone users. The number of broadband subscribers reached 110 million in December while the broadband penetration was recorded at 49.94 percent.<br \/>\nPakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has blocked about 86,000 mobile devices that were found involved in fraudulent activities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD Sweden has shown interest for investment in Pakistan\u2019s information communication technologies (ICT) sector. This transpired during a meeting between Ambassador of Sweden to Pakistan Henrik Persson and Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) Chairman Maj Gen (retd) Amir Azeem Bajwa at PTA headquarters on Thursday. The chairman PTA appreciated the ambassador\u2019s proactive engagement with stakeholders to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-241170","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-national"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Sweden interested to invest in Pakistan\u2019s ICT sector: envoy<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/sweden-interested-to-invest-in-pakistans-ict-sector-envoy\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sweden interested to invest in Pakistan\u2019s ICT sector: envoy\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"ISLAMABAD Sweden has shown interest for investment in Pakistan\u2019s information communication technologies (ICT) sector. 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