Pakistan’s local mobile phone assembly falls 14% in August, meets 95% of demand

Profit reported that Pakistan's local handset output fell 14% year on year to 1.66 million units in August 2026, citing data from the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA). Even so, domestically made phones still met 95% of demand during the month, as imports slid to just 80,000 units. Those imports were 69% lower than a year earlier and 27% below July.

Monthly output fell 57% from July, a period lifted by purchases that buyers had deferred ahead of the FY27 budget, Topline Pakistan Research said. As a result, locally assembled handsets accounted for 95% of domestic demand in August, compared with 97% in July.

Across the first eight months of 2026, local manufacturers produced 18.66 million phones, 6% fewer than the 19.77 million made in the same period of 2025. Locally produced phones covered 87% of demand over that stretch. VGO Tel was the largest assembler by volume with 2.45 million units, ahead of Infinix at 1.96 million and Itel at 1.56 million.