Sunday, November 9, 2008

The official site and the list of channels


For people who are looking for more details on PTCL Smart TV, the official site is

http://www.ptclsmart.com.pk/

the phone number to apply for the service is 0800-80800
currently the service is only available in Islamabad, Lahore and Karachi, soon to be expanded in 13 new cities

Thursday, November 6, 2008

Smart TV in 13 new cities

PTCL is expanding its IPTV service in further 13 cities before the start of the next year. Technical and commercial teams are testing the service and the markets for this launch that will surface before the end of this year and commercially will be announced soon after

The cities are: Taxila, Wah, Abbottabad, Peshawar, Gujrawala, Gujrat, Sialkot, Faisalabad, Mutan, Sheikhupura, Bahawalpur, Hyderabad, Quetta

Broadband launched in these cities was completed within the past couple of months with a view to expand the new reolutionary service all over Pakistan. The management is keen on launching the service without any further delays and hence teams from all relevant departments are doing the work in parallel to bring this to reality

Staff trainings are going to be a part of daily ruts for the company, where the experienced existing staff will be assisting the trainers to deliver expertise from their daily experiences

New IS systems are being developed, tested and deployed for OFAN and copper networks, that can be customised according to the requirements and the legacy of waiting 6 months for a simple development to be found no where in the future. In house development teams are being built to develop the required solutions

The change PTCL has been advertising is being deployed in every field of expertise. It will not be long before the customes will speak up for this change at large

Wednesday, November 5, 2008

PTCL, LMKR ink deed for deployment of GIS solution


Staff Report

ISLAMABAD�Pakistan Telecommunications Company Limited (PTCL) and LMK Resources (LMKR) Pakistan Wednesday signed an agreement for the deployment of a state-of-the-art turnkey Geographical Information System (GIS) solution.
PTCL's SEVP South Adel Soufah and EVP of LMKR Mahmood Arsalan signed the agreement on behalf of their respective companies.
The solution will enable PTCL to better manage Access and Transmission Networks and inside plant (OSP and ISP) infrastructure including its copper and optical fibre network.
The project, which would provide the network mapping of PTCL on the lines of google earth, would not only facilitate the PTCL to trace any fault in its fire optic network, but also it would assist the PTCL consumers by early repair of any fault in PTCL network.
Under the project, one of the most strategic developments in the country, would enable the PTCL technical staff through the GIS component, a greater visibility by providing quantitative andqualitative spatial information about the capacity and integrity of the PTCL network and pinpoint faults and issues when they arise.
Through the project, LMKR Pakistan would launch network mapping of Islamabad under its first phase.
According to the scope of the project, the system will eventually be implemented across Pakistan and will become the only project of its kind to be put into practice on this scale in the South Asian region.
As part of the project, LMKR will be delivering this project on a turnkey basis. The objective is to design a robust and streamlined architecture that can be scaled to the national level.
The resulting solution will significantly improve the operational efficiency through consolidation and better representation of spatial information.
This system will become the backbone of PTCL's decision-making framework in terms of planning new expansions and maintaining existing infrastructure.
It will also enable timely and efficient deployment of newtechnologies such as GPON and NGN. The consumer being the ultimate beneficiary will experience consistent quality of services and a more fault-tolerant network

Source: http://dailymailnews.com/200811/06/news/dmcitypage09.html