PTCL IPTV services, also called PTCL Smart TV are being offered in 15 cities now. Karachi Lahore Islamabad Rawalpindi Gujranwala Faisalabad Peshawar Sialkot Multan Sargodha Jehlum Wah Cantt Taxila Hyderabad Abbotabad PTCL’s Smart TV allows customer to be more interactive and more in control with their TV service as compared to conventional TV broadcast...
PTCL is looking for various options to offer Video conferencing and GPON, said Mr. Walid Irshad, President and CEO of PTCL during an interview with Sabah uddin Qazi for Huawei’s Win-Win Magazine. PTCL may go with Huawei to use IPTV platform to create home to home video conference, revealed President PTCL. “PTCL has biggest nationwide WiMAX license,...
In 90s, when PTV was the only option to watch on TV, we used to bear clutter of advertisements during dramas and cricket matches. AD breaks happened to be long enough to prolong 35 minutes episode to stretch over 90 minutes’ duration. Later on, cable TV freed people from PTV era and offered dozens of other channels on variety of topics. However, soon...
Through an advertisement published today in “Daily Jang” PTCL has announced free one month broadband internet if applied in December 2008. Same print ad says that PTCL’s free IPTV services are now extended till June 2009 for all new and existing IPTV customers. To subscribe call: 0800-80800 However, we are not sure about how other broadband...
PTCL has plans to further expand its IPTV services in 13 more cities, by the start of year 2009. Technical and commercial teams are undergoing serials of service tests in new cities for the launch that is scheduled by next month, or at most in January 2009. The cities are: Taxila, Wah, Abbottabad, Peshawar, Gujrawala, Gujrat, Sialkot, Faisalabad, Mutan,...
Recently PTCL came up with a revolutionary service called Smart TV, and now PTCL has been offering this for FREE till December 31, 2008. It is just like the TATA SKY which has made a lot of buzz in India. This TV service works using Internet Protocol (IP) Technology. For the first time such service is introduced in Pakistan. It is more interactive than...
Thanks to Mr. Mudassar Jehangir, Editor-in-Chief, More Magazine, who did this service Review of “PTCL’s Smart IPTV” and allowed me to post it here. I received two calls in the third week of August from the sales staff of PTCL confirming from me the order of “Smart IPTV connection”. Before the installation, my telephone line was checked by...
There have been rumors about PTCL’s IPTV for almost a year now. It was May 2007, when we first heard about IPTV services through Daily Times. However, we were repeatedly informed about dates regarding IPTV’s launch, which were not met. Lately, Syed Yousaf Raza Gillani, Prime Minister of Pakistan, officially inaugurated PTCL’s IPTV services on...
