KARACHI, June 8 Asia Pulse - Pakistan Telecommunications Company (PTCL), will invest about Rs16 billion (US$186 million) in the telecommunications sector in next five years, the telco's managing director Walid Irshad has said.
Irshad made the comment during a forum with Korangi Association of Trade and Industry (KATI). He said that PTCL will to introduce high-speed internet in the country soon, starting from the Korangi Industrial Area.
The era of conventional telephone exchanges is now over and most modern exchanges would now be installed in Pakistan, he said, adding the first-ever new generation telephone exchange will be introduced in Karachi.
The telco hopes to has minimized subscribers' complaints and with the introduction of new services and new generation telephone exchanges.
He said that PTCL is not being run just as phone company but as an investment-oriented company which is striving hard to introduce most modern telecommunications services.
The chairman of KATI, Syed Johar Ali Qandhari said while the telco has improved services, industrialists often face hardships in broadband and internet services, urging PTCL to set up a fully-fledged cell at KATI so that subscribers' woes should be addressed.
KATI former chair Mian Zahid Hussain said although complaints by PTCL's subscribers have dropped, the mindset of lower-level employees need to be changed so that the telco would be able to address the subscribers' complaints in a real-time manner.
The vice chairman of KATI, Shahid Javed Qureshi pointed out that PTCL's latest product, EVO 9.3, has signal problems in some areas of Karachi, and that charges are higher compared to other companies' services.
(PPI) ry 08-06 1317
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