Ptcl Internet Usb

[Florence Rocle]

PTCLprovides high speed internet with unlimited downloads to cater the demand for browsing, online streaming, gaming and learning across Pakistan. High Speed Internet provides unlimited data at a higher level of performance.

Speaking at the occasion, the Chief Guest, Dr. Umar Saif, Federal Minister IT & Telecommunication said, "Pakistan is a massive digital market, with an internet user-base larger than the population of Italy. Over the past few years, we have made significant strides in advancing fiber connectivity. We got two fiber loops from Kashgar to Rawalpindi, further extended to Karachi by PTCL. Additionally, multiple submarine cables making landfall in Karachi further enhance our connectivity. Now, PTCL Business Solution's carrier neutral Internet Exchange, managed by a tier 1 IX operator, DE-CIX, is up and running and generates exciting prospects for localized content hosting from leading platforms like YouTube, Netflix and TikTok. The content cached and routed from Pakistan can seamlessly reach other markets, positioning us as the regional digital connectivity hub. It can generate annual revenues, ranging from $200-400 million through transit traffic to substantially add to our economy."

The Pakistan Internet Exchange (PIE) will be hosted at the PTCL data centre in Karachi. The exchange is operated by DE-CIX under the DE-CIX as a Service (DaaS) model and is built on the company's infrastructure.

Dr Umar Saif, federal minister of IT and telecommunication said: "Pakistan is a massive digital market, with an internet user base larger than the population of Italy. Over the past few years, we have made significant strides in advancing fibre connectivity. We got two fibre loops from Kashgar to Rawalpindi, further extended to Karachi by PTCL.

Additionally, multiple submarine cables making landfall in Karachi further enhance our connectivity. Now, PTCL Business Solution's carrier-neutral Internet Exchange, managed by a tier 1 IX operator, DE-CIX, is up and running and generates exciting prospects for localised content hosting from leading platforms like YouTube, Netflix and TikTok.

The content cached and routed from Pakistan can seamlessly reach other markets, positioning us as the regional digital connectivity hub. It can generate annual revenues, ranging from $200-400 million through transit traffic to substantially add to our economy."

The interconnection platform provides both local peering and remote access to DE-CIX Frankfurt in Germany, which is one of the world's biggest IXs. The PIE will function as a regional connectivity hub, enabling low-latency interconnection for local networks and localisation of global content, while boosting stability, scalability, and security.

I know everyone has their set of different experiences with broadband

providers like PTCL and Cybernet, the top notch Internet Service

Providers in Pakistan but recent happenings at the personal end for me

have deteriorated my consumer confidence in these two companies

permanently. I will have to give a disclaimer that this may only be my

very own situation but its crazy.Wouldn't it be interesting to learn that I have been surviving without

landline/DSL for over a month now at my residence. I am a Cybernet

user and have been so for quite some time now around more than two

years. Somehow, my Internet was switched off last month without my

knowledge at home by Cybernet. Since I personally use Worldcall EVDO

on the go, my family members just sighed to their fate as I was away.

No response to their calls to customer service. It may have been the

bill because Cybernet didn't collect it but that's no reason to switch

off a dedicated customer/consumer.Anyway, seeing my plight, a close acquaintance guided me to go for the

PTCL Broadband Pakistan Optic Fiber connectivity option for

residential usage. I thought the idea was perfect and I could use the

landline and broadband and probably their quad play package in the

near future. So all jolly and happy that my residence will get

connected back to the Internet in 7 days and on an optic fibre,

woohoo, I went down to the PTCL CS Centre in Garden Town Lahore and a

CS member happily filled an application form for a new line for me and

advised me that Optic Fibre would be a great experience and blah blah

and that I will have PTCL people come with a demand note within 7 days

and sort out everything because PTCL is wonderful in its new

connections and broad band. Well, pafooeee!!!! All crap and a bunch of

bad mangos!Its August now and no PTCL, Cybernet came in my black list of ISPs and

now PTCL sits at the same level in the list. I am disappointed by both

these companies and and I wish there was a real truthful service

provider in Lahore that would live up to their claims. My small

Worldcall EVDO beats these companies throwing rotten tomatoes in their

faces. Worldcall even gives 10-14 days and then switches off and then

sends me a personalized SMS offering me savings on timely payments.

Does OmanTel outweigh our Middle Eastern corporate and our Karachi

based Internet giant? I think they do!So in the end I pay for years to Cybernet and get the mango instead of

them atleast calling me and notifying me why I have been switched

offline. ! I attempt to test PTCL for all good sakes and get the

langra mango! It seems as if mango season has turned all offerings and

providers into a mango party. Imagine the state of my catharsis

because all this is very ironic for me and ironically I can't eat

mangoes because I am allergic to them!--

Regards.

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Fouad Bajwa

As we can relate to each other, there is a strong need for some

telecom/internet consumer oriented body today that can be a one stop

monitor of these companies. Well I guess this comes out of my pain for

not getting any DSL :o(

Pakistan Telecommunication Company Ltd., commonly known as PTCL (Urdu: مشارکتِ پاکستان برائے بعیدالمواصلات (المحدود)) is the national telecommunication company in Pakistan.[1][3] PTCL provides telephone and internet services nationwide and is the backbone for the country's telecommunication infrastructure. The corporation manages and operates around 2000 telephone exchanges across the country, providing the largest fixed-line network. Data and backbone services such as GSM, HSPA+, CDMA, LTE, broadband internet, IPTV, and wholesale are an increasing part of its business.

Originally a state-owned corporation, the shareholding of PTCL was reduced to 62%, when 26% of shares and control were sold to Etisalat Telecommunications while the remaining 12% to the general public in 2006 under an intensified privatization program under Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz. However, the 62% of shares still remain under the management of government-ownership of state-owned corporations of Pakistan.[4]

From the beginning of the Posts & Telegraph Department in 1949 and establishment of Pakistan Telephone & Telegraph Department in 1962, PTCL has been a major player in telecommunication in Pakistan. [7]

Pakistan Telecommunication Corporation (PTC) took over operations and functions from Pakistan Telephone and Telegraph Department under Pakistan Telecommunication Corporation Act 1991. This coincided with the Government's competitive policy, encouraging private sector participation and resulting in the award of licenses for cellular, card-operated pay-phones, paging and, lately, data communication services.

Pursuing a progressive policy, the Government in 1991, announced its plans to privatize PTCL, and in 1994 issued six million vouchers exchangeable into 600 million shares of the would-be PTCL in two separate placements. Each had a par value of Rs. 10 per share. These vouchers were converted into PTCL shares in mid-1996.[7]

On December 31, 1995, the Pakistan Telecommunication (Reorganization) Act, 1996, was passed, which formally reconstituted the Pakistan Telecommunication Corporation as PTCL.[8] The act facilitated the transfer of the telecommunications business, along with its associated assets, rights, liabilities, and obligations, from the corporation to PTCL.[8] However, certain exclusions were allocated to the National Telecommunication Corporation (NTC), Frequency Allocation Board (FAB), Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA), and Pakistan Telecommunication Employees Trust (PTET).[8]

As part of the reorganization process, the Government of Pakistan divested 26 percent of its PTCL shares through an initial public offering (IPO) at a strike price of PKR 30 and was subsequently listed on the Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE) in 1996.[9][10][11]

PTCL launched its mobile and data services subsidiaries in 2001 by the name of Ufone and PakNet respectively. None of the brands made it to the top slots in the respective competitions. Lately, however, Ufone had increased its market share in the cellular sector. The PakNet brand has effectively dissolved over a period of time. Recent DSL services launched by PTCL reflects this by the introduction of a new brand name and operation of the service being directly supervised by PTCL.

In 2005, Government of Pakistan decided to sell 26 percent of the company to some private corporation. There were three participants in the bidding process for the privatization of PTCL. Etisalat, an Abu Dhabi company was able to get the shares with a large margin in the bid.[12] In June 2005, Etisalat won the 26% of PTCL shares along with management control of the then telecom monopoly for US$2.6 billion. As of 2019, Etisalat has held back $800m amount over a property-transfer dispute with the Pakistani government.[13]

The government's plan of privatizing the corporation was not welcomed in all circles; countrywide protests and strikes were held by PTCL workers. They disrupted phone lines of institutions like Punjab University Lahore along with other public sector institutions.[14][15]

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