ITCN Asia is about business and economic development. The objective is to enhance business opportunities for trade and industry through IT products and services. The exhibition and conference highlights the strategic advantages and efficiencies obtainable through IT in banking, manufacturing and trade sectors. The platform brings together business leaders, investors, collaborators and IT entrepreneurs to evaluate the current IT trends and business opportunities.

ITCN Asia 2010 continues the success story of the ITCN Asia series of exhibitions and conferences. The series has strengthened the local IT industry and has projected its image on the international stage. ITCN Asia 2001 introduced Karachi as the regional IT hub and attracted major IT players from all over the world. ITCN Asia 2002 showcased the strengths of the IT industry through a large variety of products and services. It brought together buyers, sellers and large number of corporate visitors and was praised for its superior organization and management. ITCN Saudi Arabia held at Dhahran in October 2002 provided an unprecedented high profile exposure of Middle Eastern market to a large contingent of IT vendors from Pakistan.

ITCN Asia enables your requirements-based customized search for the right partners. It is the platform where you find required quality business solutions. The aim of this event is to form a marketplace where both buyers and sellers; international and local players interact in a highly stimulating environment. The exhibition and conference highlights new channels and further strengthens the existing ones. ITCN Asia is attracting visitors from Middle East, Europe and Far East who seek compatible resources, and emerging tools and techniques to maintain their competitive edge.

• Explosive growth of Internet, tele-density, digital telephone exchanges.
• Breaking up of the monopoly of PTCL, Pakistan's national telco.
• Privatization and deregulation of the telecommunication sector.
• Establishment of PTA and various licensing frameworks.
• Deregulation of the electronic media and establishment of PEMRA.
• Explosion of mobile phones business and wireless solutions.
• Highly competitive prices for bandwidth and internet connections.
• State of the art national fiber optic cable infrastructure connecting all the major cities.

• Globalization pressures to reduce costs and increase competitiveness.
• Increasing demand for higher quality.
• Need for flexible assembly lines and customizable products.
• Advancements in industry automation tools and technologies.
• Computer integrated manufacturing.
• Time to market pressures.

• Bandwidth has increased from 30 MB to 300 MB in last two years, and is expected to reach 400 MB by next year.
• Bandwidth prices have drastically gone down from the high of $90,000 for a 2-MB line per month to $3,800 in the last couple of years.
• Fiber optic links now crisscross the entire country connecting all the major cities.

• More than a million new telephonic links activated since 1996.
• Internet-users have crossed 1.5 million mark from 150,000 a few years ago.
• Over 3.7 million line units have been installed including 2.2 million Electronic Digital Exchange Lines.
• Tele-density which was 2.45% in 2001 is now increasing at the rate of 6% per year .
• Telephone exchanges are overwhelmingly digital (2189 out of 2637 exchanges).

• Over 70 active Internet service providers provide access in 840 cities and towns.
• Highly competitive Internet access charges encouraging widespread access.

• Aggressive policies by the central bank has multiplied the investment in e-Banking.
• Huge increase in automated and online bank branches.
• Rapid growth of ATMs installations all over the country.

• Exports have grown by 3.0 percent over corresponding months of last fiscal year.
• Automobile industry has shown impressive growth of up to 15%.
• Foreign direct investment (FDI) in textile sector doubled from last year and overall increased by 18.8 percent.
• Tremendous increase in foreign reserves from $1.2 bn to over $10 bn.