The Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) -South Region- General Manager Hafeez ul Islam has said the PTCL was going to launch Wireless Local Loop (WLL), an alternative to traditional wired phone, next month in Lahore, a giant step in the sense that there were a number of companies offering their services turning the atmosphere quite competitive. He expressed these views while talking to Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) Senior Vice President Sohail Lashari during a meeting on Thursday. LCCI Vice President Sheikh Muhammad Arshad also attended the meeting.
Giving a briefing about PTCL, the General Manager informed the participants of the meeting the fast expanding network of communication was posing a real challenge to the PTCL and the Telecommunication Corporation was all set to face that challenge.
He said the PTCL was offering a number of services at the moment including, International Leased Lines, Channel/Streams, Local Lease Circuits (2 Wire/4Wire), VPN (Virtual Private Network), Pay Phone, PSTN Line, PABX and Co-location.
He said in a bid to provide efficient service online customer facilitation system (OCFS) was being introduced in Lahore to provide better online services to the valued customers regarding new telephone connection, payment of bills, closure/restoration of phones, issuance of advice notes and provision of other relevant information relating to the activation of telecom services, which was actually a one-step solution to all problems being faced by the PTCL customers and in way a short cut to get rid of 'lineman culture.'
Speaking on the occasion, the LCCI Senior Vice President Sohail Lashari said the business community endorsed the deregulation and privatisation policy of the government for the sake of anticipated future expansion in Information and Communication sectors.
Sohail Lashari said the privatisation was now a global phenomenon and all the developed countries had adopted the methodology long ago which was actually a dire need of the hour to keep pace with fast changing global scenario. He said mobile communication was one of the greatest revolutions in the field of telecommunication.
While the world was getting wired through fiber optic and submarine cables, it was also getting unwired through cellular and satellite phones. He said the fixed-line phones were growing at the rate of less than 10 percent and the mobile phones were growing the rate of more than 50 percent. He added the cellular phone technology had also embraced the domain of Internet and E-mail. Even cellular phones could be connected to the Internet and the other affiliated communication tools.
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