page_title: Internet in Pakistan
section_title: Status
hierarchical_section_title: Internet in Pakistan / Status
caption_attribution_description: Route of the TWA-1 Submarine communications cable. For more information on the numbered landing points, see main article.
context_page_description: The Internet in Pakistan has been available since the early 1990s. Pakistan has about 76.38 million internet users, making it the 10th-largest population of internet users in the world. Information and communications technology is one of the fastest growing industries in the country. In 2001 just 1.3% of the population used the Internet. By 2006 this figure had grown to 6.5% and in 2012 to 10.0%. As of November 2019; the percentage of internet users in Pakistan is 36.18%, which translates into approximately 76 million citizens having access to internet.
context_section_description: Internet users: 83 Million broadband subscribers as on July 2020, 14th in the world; 19.0% of the population, 20th in the world (2012).
  Fixed broadband: 2,042,179 subscribers as of November 2019, 28th in the world; 1.7% of the population, 128th in the world (2012).
  Mobile broadband: 74,338,910 subscriptions as of November 2019, 10th in the world; 16% of the population, 13th in the world (2012).
  Top level domain: .pk
  Domains registered under the .pk domain: ~30,000 (2012).
  Internet hosts: 365,813 hosts, 57th in the world (2012).
  IPv4: 5.2 million addresses allocated, 0.1% of the world total, 27.2 addresses per 1000 people (2012).
  International bandwidth: ~78 Tbit/s combined from PTCL and TWA (2017).
  Undersea telecommunications cables: Six, SEA-ME-WE 3, SEA-ME-WE 4, IMEWE and AAE-1 operated by PTCL and TWA-1 and SEA-ME-WE 5 operated by Transworld Associates (2012).
  Operational ISPs: ~50 (2012).
  ISPs providing DSL services: Ten (2012).
  ISPs providing broadband cable services: Five (2012).
  ISPs providing Fiber to the Home (FTTH) services: Nayatel (2002), Transworld Home (2015). PTCL, StormFiber, Fiberlink and Speed.Net
  Domestic fiber backbones: PTCL, Wateen, Mobilink, and Multinet (2012).
caption: TWA-1 telecommunications cable linking the United Arab Emirates, Oman, and Pakistan.
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