Tuesday, September 16, 2008

First IPTV in Pakistan

PTCL is the first in Pakistan to have introduced the IPTV service in the country with a soft launch in three major cities i.e. Islamabad, Lahore and Karachi. Initially, the company is facing serious prolems in gathering mass to the service due to the delay in launching the service on the optic fibre network.
The service is currently available on copper networks only and that has quite a few issues regarding reachability of a 3 Mb stream more than 3 Kms radius of the DSLAM. The company is investing huge amounts in developing te optic network to the support and the next quarter will see a much better service IPTV service for Pakistan