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Win Prizes with PTCL World Cup Challenge

Mee — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 07:02:00 +0000

To add to the excitement of World Cup 2011, PTCL presents World Cup Challenge service across all consumer products / services offered by PTCL.

The challenge includes a cricket quiz that challenge your wits and expands your knowledge. Winners of this competition will quality for a raffle and could win precious prizes like tickets to Colombo, professional cricket kits, EVO dongles, branded wrist watches and branded hot steel mugs, T-shirts and P-caps and one Bumper prize trip for two to an exotic destination etc.

The winners will be announced through five lucky draws on selected dates. Customers will be approached by CSRs and prizes will be awarded in a ceremony at their nearest One Stop Shop (OSS).

Once the World Cup starts live match commentary will also be available along with World Cup challenge quiz on 1216.

PTCL Landline/Vfone Customers:

All PTCL landline and Vfone customers can participate by dialing 1216. an IVR will guide you to live commentary or World Cup Challenge Quiz. The service would be charged Rs 1 / minute (Exclusive of tax) If you are VFONE customer, you can subscribe for Cricket SMS alerts for Rs. 5/Match or Rs. 50 for entire world cup

There’s no subscription required, you just have to dial short access code 1216 to access this service with no monthly recurring charges.

EVO World Cup Promotions

Buy a new Evo connection on Unlimited Package
Upgrade your existing package to Unlimited.

Mega Prize – Tickets to Colombo for Semi Final

Upgrade your package during the Cricket World Cup Challenge.
- Day Pass =>1GB, 2GB or 5GB
- 1GB =>2GBor 5GB
- 2GB =>5GB

Terms & Conditions:

This promotion is valid from 8^th February till 2^nd April 2011.
Only those customers can qualify for Mega Prize who purchase a new Evo connection on Unlimited or Evo Max package.
Existing Customers upgrading their package to Unlimited or Evo Max package will also qualify for Mega Prize.
Existing customers upgrading to all other packages will be entered into a raffle to win other prizes.
All customers purchasing new Evo connection on Unlimited or Evo Max package or upgrading their packages will qualify for the Bumper Prize.

PTCL Broadband Pakistan Promotions

Upgrade or get a 2 Mbps or Higher Connection.
Upgrade or get a student package or 1 Mbps package to qualify for special prizes & qualify for the luck draw.
Only those customers qualify for Mega and Bumper Prize who upgrade a 2Mbps or higher connection.

PTCL Smart TV Promotions

Get a Smart TV connection during the World Cup & qualify for the luck draw.Also get 50% discount on the STB.

Prizes:

Mega Prize – 5 luck winners will get Tickets to Colombo for Semi Final

Bumper Prize – Trip for 2 to a surprise exotic destination.

Other prizes include: 50 professional cricket kits, 50 EVO dongles and much more

Terms & Conditions

PTCL employees or business partners are not eligible for this promotion.
Decision of PTCL regarding the announcement of winners shall be final.

PTCL Introduced Broadband 2MB Connection Again

Mee — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 07:02:44 +0000

PTCL, which had discontinued 2 MB DSL broadband package, is again offering its customers with 2 MB DSL broadband at Rs. 1,499 per month.

PTCL’s website says that the new 2Mb data rate as a promo will be offered to all existing 1Mb customers who upgrades to 2Mb at the existing monthly charges of 1Mb for a period of 3 Months without any additional charges.

After 3 months the prevailing monthly tariff of 2Mb of Rs 1,499 will be applicable. This discount for three months is only valid for the upgrade customers of 1Mb to 2Mbps.

This move of brining back 2 MB DSL is apparently due to the fact that LDN, Micronet, Cybernet and other ISPs were offering 2 MB at around of less than Rs. 1,499, where as PTCL had discontinued its 2 MB DSL package.

Earlier, PTCL had upgraded all 2 MB DSL customers to 4 MB and had discontinued 2 MB package.

This was a good move, however, those customers without PTCL’s fiber-optic network to their door-stop were left with no option but to avail 1 MB DSL (as copper wire doesn’t support 4 MB DSL) or to move to other ISPs offering 2 MB.

PTCL Broadband packages now available for customers

1Mb @Rs 1,199
2Mb @Rs 1,499
4Mb @Rs 1,999
6Mb @Rs 4,999
8Mb @Rs 6,999
10Mb @Rs 9,999

Note: PTCL offers wi-fi routers for wireless internet with additional rental of Rs. 200 per month. However, this service has no extra cost for broadband customers having Smart TV.

Benefits and key Highlights:

Range of available Data rates from 1Mbps to 10Mbps to suite customers unique requirements and needs accordingly
PTCL Broadband service is available in over 1000 cities and towns across the country. Click here for download complete list of cities where PTCL Broadband is being offered.
Access to rich HD multimedia resources over the internet
Access to free movies, music, classical Pakistani plays, famous cricket matches, educational and religious contents exclusively for PTCL broadband customers on ‘Buzz’ broadband web infotainment portal.

PTCL Buzz Revitalizes its Broadband Entertainment Portal

Mee — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 07:02:56 +0000

PTCL Pakistan which pioneered the concept of broadband entertainment in Pakistan has completely revamped its broadband entertainment portal called PTCL Buzz.

Buzz Portal has been one of the most popular broadband portals with over 250,000 visits every month. This is a huge number considering that the portal is only limited to PTCL Broadband Subscribers.

PTCL Buzz Portal features full length movies, hundreds of music albums, a new lifestyle channel and a devotional channel. The popular gaming section which is a complete gaming portal in itself remains unchanged.

Featuring Junoon, Vital Signs, Alamgir, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan; the music section is loaded with leading Pakistani artists. It was a treat to go through the complete music collection and rediscover the best of Pakistani music.The songs are also available for full length downloads to all PTCL Buzz users.

The Movie Section of the Buzz Portal is loaded with classic Pakistani movies like Aaina, Jawab Do and Naseeb Apna Apna. Bollywood movies are also available on Buzz Portal ranging from classics like Kaalia to the more recent 15Park Avenue.

Lifestyle channel has video highlights from around the fashion and showbiz industry. Highlights from movie launches, fashion shows, meet the press, music premiers fill this section. However, this section needs to be constantly updated to keep the viewers interested.

The revamped buzz portal also seems to focus on visitor interactivity. There are various pods including Popular Movies, Top Artists and Top Songs which are updated on the basis of user feedback. The inspirational design of Buzz portal is also a breath of fresh air and marks a major improvement. In addition, the navigation has been greatly simplified.

Another notable addition is the inclusion of Buzz Radio which plays non-stop music around the clock. Currently the Radio has two channels but according to sources other channels are planned for it too. The devotional section of the website also contains a large catalogue of religious content available.

The audio content on the website is available for free downloads for all Buzz users. PTCL must be applauded in taking the pain to provide legally downloadable audio content for all its users. Although, the cyber laws in the country are not adequate enough to stop music piracy, yet the efforts of PTCL management must not get unnoticed.

Visit: entertainment.ptcl.net

Note: PTCL Buzz is only available for PTCL Broadband subscribers.

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PTCL Opens its 2nd Data Center in Lahore

Mee — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 08:18:09 +0000

According to PTCL’s website, its data center in Lahore is operational now. First being in Karachi, Lahore’s data center is going to be company’s second facility in Pakistan.

PTCL Lahore’s data center is reportedly connected with PTCL’s global MPLS backbone to offer a rich portfolio of hosting solutions. With availability of Lahore center, PTCL is now able to offer largest redundant solution for corporate and SME customers.

PTCL says that its data centers are certified by the internationally recognized certification body, EPI, This certification by an international body is the first data center certification in Pakistan’s history.

This hosting/computing solution is going to be catchy for companies/websites having major clients in Pakistan.

For hosting packages from PTCL click here.

PTCL is going to offer following services through its Lahore center:

Infrastructure Hosting (Caging, Co-Location)

Application Hosting (To Host Customer applications on Unified PTCL Infrastructure)

On Demand Services (DR Solution , Backup Solution, Storage on Demand, Processing on Demand, HA through PTCL infrastructure)

Hosted Business Solution (Email & Collaboration , Unified Communications, Video Conferencing, SaaS (Software as a Service), CRMs, ERP)

Features:

99.999 % Uptime

Every component is TIA 942 compliant

Quarterly Technical Audits

Round the clock support

Gigabit Ethernet on demand basis

3+ Tier Storage Architecture

Following is the official PR for this:

Pakistan Telecommunication Company LTD (PTCL) understanding the rapidly changing business environment and its growing reliance upon automation has launched a second Data Center in Lahore.

PTCL Data Centers are certified by the internationally recognized certification body, EPI.

This certification by an international body is the first data center certification in Pakistan’s history and proves PTCL’s commitment to providing state of the art products and services backed by engineering and support for the Government and Enterprise markets of Pakistan.

PTCL with the inauguration of Karachi data center earlier and Lahore data center now, will have the largest geographically redundant commercial data centers in Pakistan.

PTCL Data Center services is an ideal choice for companies who want the flexibility to house their Primary, Disaster Recovery and/or Business Continuity sites and choose from a variety of cost reducing services as their business demands. These data centers are part of the overall PTCL managed services approach which provides our corporate customers not only reduced costs, but also improvements in the availability, performance, resilience and security of an organization’s IT systems.

PTCL Data Center solution provides customers Managed and Hosted Cloud based services that comprise of Computing as a Service, Processing as a service, Storage as a Service, Software as a Service, Application Hosting, Infrastructure Hosting, Caging, Co-Location, Disaster Recovery as a service, Backup Solutions, Hosted Business Solutions, Unified Communications and Telepresence switching.

This certification by an internationally recognized organization ensures that PTCL Data centers provide a reliable, responsive and resilient infrastructure, is designed and built using international standards and provides a secure, managed, climatically controlled environment for the housing and hosting of sensitive, mission-critical data and applications. This benefits our customers in terms of cost, efficiency and scalability of its IT systems, It allows businesses to protect critical applications and confidential data, enhance its ITs operational efficiencies, and rapidly create new secure application environments to support new business processes.

President PTCL Walid Irshaid said “PTCL is heavily investing in these ICT assets on behalf of our customers so that they can focus on their core competencies. Getting our Data Centers certified is further evidence that PTCL is committed to provide technology to the Government and Enterprise markets of Pakistan of international standards. As the National Carrier of Pakistan this is not only our obligation but also our duty.”

PTCL is the only unified service provider in Pakistan, able to service all customer segments including consumers, enterprise and carries with a comprehensive portfolio of services to cater for all their needs.

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