My 7 year old niece
owns a mobile phone worth 50,000. Surprising??No it’s not surprising for
anyone. Mobile phone usage in Pakistan is growing so much that we don’t care if
we have enough food for a day but we care if our mobile phone is stuffed with
enough credit jeweled with more convenient call and sms packages. Mobile phones
are more about just mean of communication. It has also become a status symbol;
who have the latest model is in the spot light. Different applications and
firmware associated with mobile phones makes them more demanding among
youngsters. No doubt why Pakistan is the fifth largest market of mobile phones
in Asia. In past there were only PTCL telephone sets who were the only source
of communication but now every member of a family owns mobile phone.
No one can deny the
fact that how much these mobile phones are brining social changes. Society
behaviors have changed which is bringing revolutions in norms and ethics. They
have become little journalist. Access to social networking websites and easily
done IMs have become a convenient way to instantly spread words among people.
No wonder how controversial MMS brought revolutions when everyone was instantly
sharing such MMS with each other. For spreading of mobile phone usage like a
plague we can also blame media, actress having latest mobile phone models were
impressive enough for people to copy them. Different mobile phone networking
companies and their commercials are another culprit who offer cheap offers for mobile
phone networks provoking enough for everyone to buy another mobile for access
to another network. So we can say that Pakistanis reception are welcoming
enough for tech innovations introduced by developing countries.