Recently, the UN escap published jointly with the adb report says, access to international submarine cable should be considered in Pakistan.
In the access to international submarine cable and provide services to the five central Asian countries, Pakistan has great advantage: one is the central Asian countries are landlocked, submarine cable can not connect directly;Second, is in a good policy environment, the government encourage the development of network technology;3 it is the market prospect is good, the number of users, and private mobile broadband business is growing rapidly;Four is the market potential is tremendous, the population of 185 million, but the Internet penetration rate is not high, and a low bandwidth, the average rate of 7.1 KBPS users surfing the Internet and the rate of 1.7 KBPS bandwidth per capita and still has great development space.
Report also pointed out that the need to carefully consider whether to grant access to international submarine cable and cable to other parts of the transit point, because once the failure, Iran will get a chance.If the successful, so can not only get the income benefit of a as a fiber optic cable transfer point, also can have the prosperity and development of the telecommunications industry and related industries.