Pakistan Telecommunication Authority received 31,266 complaints against telecom operators including cellular operators, PTCL, LLs, LDIs, WLL, ISPs and CVAS during 2012-13, compared to 33,310 complaints during the previous year, said PTA’s annual report for 2012-13 which is going to get public in next few weeks.
PTA claims that almost 98% of consumer complaints – or a total of 30,912 complaints, were resolved after authority perused them with the relative operators.
The number of complaints against CMOs has the highest share (64%) in total complaints followed by PTCL (34%).
With respect to current 128.93 million cellular subscribers, the number of complaints against CMOs is a small ratio, compared to complaints vs. subscriber base ratio of PTCL.
Consumer Complaints Received During 2012-13
Interestingly, the number of complaints against CMOs during FY2012-13 has dropped by 7% compared to FY2011-12, whereas complaints against PTCL (the fixed line incumbent operator) have increased by 7% during the same period.
PTA said that in collaboration with operators, it has taken appropriate actions to reduce the problems faced by cellular mobile users.
A deeper analysis of the cellular complaints reveal that out of the 19,938 complaints received against mobile services and Mobile Number Portability (MNP), 43.5% were related to misuse of mobile services followed by MNP (20.4%).
Share of Complaints by Category (CMTOs & MNP) – FY 2013
Complaints’ Received and Resolved (Mobile Operators) – FY2012-13
Over the last two years, complaints related to mobile number portability (MNP) issues have also decreased by 10% of the total cellular mobile complaints received by PTA. Although the uptake of cellular mobile services has profound benefits for the country, the low literacy rate and some mischievous elements trouble the customers with wrong calls, obnoxious and unwanted communication. Therefore, this category has the highest rate of complaints in the cellular sector.
Illegal practices such as obnoxious, fraudulent calls/SMS constitute 17.3% of the complaints while billing, QoS, VAS, poor customer issues were about illegal practices and others form the rest. Looking at the complaints received against each cellular operator, the maximum number of complaints (5,139) were against Mobilink since it has the highest subscriber base as well, followed by Telenor, Ufone, Warid and CMPak with 4,157, 4,478, 3,087 and 2,436 complaints respectively.
The percentage breakup of the total complains by each operator received by PTA shows that Mobilink had the highest number of complaints at 27% followed by Telnor 23%, Ufone 21%, Warid 16% and CMPak 13%.
Mobile Operators Complaints Share – FY2012-13
PTA successfully resolved 99% of the total complaints received against mobile operators.
Analysis of Consumer Complaints (PTCL 2012 and 2013)
PTCL has virtual monopoly over fixed line sector. Therefore, the nature and number of complaints against the company depicts the overall state of the local loop sector in Pakistan.
The Authority received 10,811 complaints against PTCL in various categories. However, faults/disruption in service constitutes the major chunk of the complaints.
The infrastructure of the incumbent needs immediate attention to curb this major portion of complaints. Provision of service, QoS, billing issues and other complaints make up the rest of the complaints.
totaly drama hai yeh, mai ny bi complain ki thi PTA mai 3 sy 4 bar likin 01 bi solve nahi hoi
i am not agree with this report… they said they resolves problem LOL
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Response hi nahi milta PTA se Compaint karny ka koi faida nahi
Well indeed they resolve problem if its in their budget. PTCL ke jb tk PTA ko complaint na krao to yeh log sunty he ni aapke baat. I also did complaint about PTCL 4 to 5 times in this year. Interestingly all of the complaints were about fault and disruption in services. And they resolved them. Thanks to PTA :)
In the current year I have complained 5 times to PTA about Mobile operators, I didn’t even get a reply for any! and they say they’ve resolved 99%!
Volume of complaints against PTA itself would have been much higher if there was any authority on top of it where one could report
and they have bloced extratorrent
Lately they does not pay attention to emails, I had complained with them many times they do respond 50% of times. Problems do get resolved however in 2013 as well couple of time I had sent them multiple emails but they did not responded.