Pakistan imported $1.889 billion worth of mobile phones during FY2025-26, up 26.55 percent from $1.492 billion in the previous fiscal year, according to official data.
In rupee terms, mobile phone imports rose to Rs530.492 billion, compared with Rs416.937 billion in FY2024-25, showing an increase of 27.24 percent.
On a monthly basis, imports climbed 11.88 percent to $141.556 million in June 2026 from $126.527 million in May. Compared with June last year, imports were up 2.62 percent from $137.941 million.
The increase follows a decline in FY2024-25, when Pakistan imported mobile phones worth $1.494 billion, down 21.31 percent from $1.898 billion in FY2023-24.
Overall telecom imports also recorded strong growth, rising 27.97 percent to $2.690 billion in FY2025-26 from $2.102 billion a year earlier.
Despite the rise in imports, locally assembled devices continued to dominate the market. During the first five months of 2026, domestic manufacturing and assembly plants produced 11.17 million mobile phones, compared with 1.91 million commercially imported handsets.
Of the locally assembled devices, 4.92 million were smartphones and 6.25 million were 2G feature phones. In May 2026 alone, local manufacturers assembled 101,005 5G-enabled smartphones.
According to the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA), 72.3 percent of mobile devices currently operating on Pakistani networks are smartphones, while 27.7 percent are 2G handsets.
