Posted by: Aamir Attaa on October 12, 2008 at 4:18 PM
PTCL says that they will cross any limit to facilitate their customers, this time its Free Internet Dial-up Service, starting from October 18, 2008.
All PTCL landline subscribers can now get benefited of Free and unlimited dial-up internet from 10:00 pm to 07:00 am. Not only this, you can avail 100 hours of free dial-up internet at day time during 7:00 AM to 10:00 PM in a month.
From October 18, PTCL customers availing unlimited dial up internet package of Rs. 199/month will not be charged anymore, however, customer exceeding 100 hr of free internet during day time will be charged as per existing tariff of PTCL dial up internet at Rs. 6/h
How to Use
- Simply dial 131-77777
- User name: “ptcl”
- Password: “ptcl”
- And press connect, here you go
Terms
- Dial-up Internet is Free and Unlimited from 10:00 PM to 7:00 AM
- You can use 100 free internet hours at day during 7:00 AM to 10:00 PM
- If you exceed 100 free internet hours limit at day time, you will be charged Rs. 6 Per hour
- Offer starts from October 18th, 2008
- This is a promotional and limited time offer
A good offer for consumers, but anyone thinking of ISPs in the country? who are already struggling… it is like killing them and kicking them out of business
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Posted by: Aamir Attaa on October 11, 2008 at 7:51 AM
PTCL landline subscribers can enjoy Half Rate on Sundays.
Local Calls: Rs. 1 for 3 mins. (On Net including Vfone)
NWD Calls: Rs. 1 for 1 min. (On Net including Vfone)
Mobile Calls: Rs. 1.25 for 1 min.
Terms
- Sunday Half Rate offer is available to all PTCL landline subscribers
- Sunday Half Rates will not affect Pakistan Plus subscribers for NWD calls as their NWD minutes are already free till 2500 minutes but they will be able to make local calls and mobile calls on half rate.
- International calls will be charged as per regular/current tariffs.
- It is a limited time offer
Note: Free local calls (from 11:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m.) was ended on 30th Sept. 2008
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Posted by: Aamir Attaa on October 9, 2008 at 4:47 AM
Pakistan Telecommunication Ltd (PTCL), UFone and Microsoft have entered into an Enterprise Agreement for Information Technology (IT) Infrastructure Optimization that will enable PTCL and Ufone to benefit from the Microsoft’s innovative products.
Walid Irshad, President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of PTCL while addressing the signing ceremony said that agreement would provide comprehensive software-support, which would realize the full potential of personnel at both PTCL and Ufone. “I am very optimistic that the deployment of Microsoft’s latest technology to enhance its capabilities and would lead to improve company’s operations” Irshad added. He said that through efficient communication, co-ordination and follow up mechanisms allowing us to enhance our service and quality.
CEO, Ufone Abdul Aziz said that this winning collaboration between us and the Microsoft would certainly be a key driver for our own development and for imperative growth of our valued customers. He said that this coalition with a world-renowned company would provide comprehensive software-support, which would enable customers for innovative telecom solutions and services.
Aziz also stated that we are confident that this alliance with Microsoft would support us in faster decision-making through the use of unique and most up-to-date software, facilitating us in transforming our IT infrastructure into a strategic asset. Addressing on the occasion Sherif Seddik, Regional Director, Microsoft North Africa, East Mediterranean and Pakistan said that this alliance is testimony of our long-term commitment to enhancing business operations in Pakistan.
After complete deployment in both the organizations, the IT infrastructure of PTCL and Ufone can be compared with the best companies in the world, he added. He said that training and Premier Support Services are also part of this agreement. Kamal Ahmed, the Country General Manager Microsoft Pakistan commenting on the alliance, said: “Our mission and values are to help the people and businesses to realise their full potential.
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Posted by: Aamir Attaa on October 6, 2008 at 10:58 PM
Growing rate of Wireless Local Loop (WLL) subscribers in Pakistan is snatching market share from fixed line market. Recent stats from Pakistan Telecommunication Authority show that fixed-line teledensity has seen a fall while WLL subscribers have marginally grown when compared to previous months. This addition in WLL subscribers is shared by all five major WLL companies operating in the country.
The WLL subscribers of Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) have increased from 1,126,585 in July 2008 to 1,139,399 in August 2008, followed by Telecracd from 523,773 to 534,809, WorldCall from 500,159 to 509,606, Great Bear from 47,214 to 43,847 and Buraq from 388 to 400.
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Posted by: Aamir Attaa on September 30, 2008 at 6:14 AM
As prices for telecom services’ have reached their bottom limits, cellular companies and PTCL keep on offering even better packages for limited time. These special offers keep on appearing every other week from telcos, with a tagline “Limited Time Offer”. We see plenty of print and electronic advertisements for these special offers, and they get popular very quickly and easily.
In my opinion (others may not agree) this “Limited Time Offer” tagline is excessively used to practice “Try and Implement” model. I can count several ongoing Limited Time Offers, which were introduced months ago - and they are still available, because they performed good.
It’s really fine, until these offers last, but what happens when they are taken back? For withdrawing these offers, there can be two models
- Announce ending date of package at time of its announcement or
- Publish advertisements well before (a week before) the ending date of Package
Unfortunately, we rarely see any announcement/advertisements, when (for some reasons) Limited Time offers are taken back. For instance, late night free local call offer by PTCL is going to end tonight (September 30, 2008) at 12:00 AM. But PTCL made no public announcement for this. Yea, there was a news item reported yesterday in newspapers, which said that PTCL is withdrawing this package. But that’s not the way; because, do they publish only news when package launches?
At same time, I am impressed with Ufone’s Ramadan offer, as it was very clearly told that this package is only for the month of Ramadan; plus they published advertisement saying thanks to their customers and informing (reminding) them that offer is over. We hope and want other companies to practice this too.
But I am worried for PTCL users who will come to know only after they will receive next bills - that free night calls were over long ago.
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Posted by: Aamir Attaa on September 29, 2008 at 3:46 PM
PTCL has announced a new weekend offer that will enable landline customers to call local PTCL and Vfone numbers, nation wide calls and mobile calls at half rate on Sundays.
This promotion will be effective from Sunday October 5, 2008.
On other hands, PTCL is taking back free calls (at night) offer. PTCL’s limited time free local call promotion allowing free local call between 11pm to 6am shall end at midnight Sep 30, 2008. This service was launched on July 01, 2008.
It merits mentioning here that PTCL’s recent packages include Pakistan Plus offering 2500 nationwide minutes for Rs 199 only, per month. International Plus offers international calls as low as 80 paisas per minute and local call offering of call charges @ 67 paisas per minutes.
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Posted by: Aamir Attaa on September 25, 2008 at 4:17 AM
As anticipated, PTCL has launched a new package for its (WLL) Vfone customers. As the name say, “Vfone Unlimited”, offers you unlimited calls to Vfone to Vfone and Vfone to PTCL Landline numbers at a flat rate of Rs. 600 per month (inclusive of all taxes)
Apparently, a very fruitful offer, but I doubt that home users would like to pay this much rental for their Vfone connection. This package also gives a hint that PTCL now wants to capture business customers for its Vfone unit.
Thankfully, this package is not activated by default on all Vfone numbers, like PTCL did with Pakistan Package. Hence, it’s an opt-in option, and you will have to subscribe to Vfone Unlimited package to enjoy free day and night calling.
Furthermore, I hope Vfone Unlimited was introduces with consent of other WLL companies. Because, free on-net calling is not an issue, but free day and night calls to PTCL landline numbers may arise some questions in PTCL’s competitors.
Call Rates for Vfone Unlimited 
Line Rent: Rs.20 per day (including taxes)
Vfone to Vfone (Local/NWD): Free
Vfone to PTCL (Local/NWD): Free
Vfone to Other Landline (Local): Rs.1 per minute
Vfone to Other Landline (NWD): Rs.2 per minute
Vfone to Mobile (Local/NWD): Rs.2 per minute
SMS: Free
Internet: Rs.1 per 10 minutes
How to Activate Vfone Unlimited:
To change you package, to Vfone Unlimited, you need to dial 1015 or call free helpline 1236.
Daily Charges
Daily subscription charges of Rs.20 apply. The line rent is includes all taxes.
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Posted by: Aamir Attaa on September 22, 2008 at 12:29 PM
PTA has been, somewhat, consistently publishing quarterly and annual industry reports for few years now. These industry reports are packed with industry indicators, industry direction, updates and other major elements of Telecom sector of Pakistan.
Pakistan Telecommunication Authority has failed to publish its quarterly reports lately. Its last report was for Q1 2008, and in past too we have seen PTA missing its quarterly and even annual reports.
When contacted PTA officials, in this regard, in a response to a question that what is actually hindering the authority to publish its quarterly industry report? He said that “PTA publishes 3 quarterly reports while 4th and last one is merged with the annual report. Annual report for the current year will be published shortly.” It merits mentioning here that we have already spent Q3 2008, but there came neither the quarterly report for Q2 nor the annual report.
A PTA source, who requested anonymity, has told us that PTCL was actually the main hindrance for the publication of quarterly report for Q2 2008. He maintained that PTCL had not been giving its data to authority, despite repetitive notices.
However, we have learned that PTCL has now forwarded its statistics for Q2 2008 to PTA and authority has been compelling its report, which is likely to appear soon after Eid.
PTA’s previous annual reports and quarterly reports are available on its website.
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