Introduction to PTCL

 

PTCL is an abbreviated form of Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited and is the

backbone of the country regarding Telecom.

The PTCL is the main communication authority in Pakistan which is partly government owned and

partly privatized entity. The organization works for the betterment of the telecom while holding

about2000 exchanges in Whole country with the largest landlines structure in the region.

 

The services offered by the PTCL includes Landline telephone, Broadband service, EVO, EVO

3G Wingle, Smart TV, V-Fone and ‘Ufone Mobile service as a subsidiary'.

The details of the share holding in the company is till now is as given from 100% shares of the

company 62% is owned by the government while 26% was sold to Etisalat Telecommunications

under the privatization program run by Shaukat Aziz in 2006 the remaining 12% are sold to General

Public  in the same year.

 History of PTCL

 

In 1947 the beginning there was no concept of PTCL in Pakistan rather a department “Posts and

Telegraph Department” exists which is used for communication.

In 1962 a department was established “Pakistan Telephone and Telegraph

department” replacing the first one in those days the service was provided by the organization as a

state owned entity later on in 1991 the government took the decision to privatize the PTCL in

1994 govt. issued vouchers which are convertible in to shares then govt. work on it and in 1996

shares are given to people holding vouchers.

In 2005 government decides to fully privatize the PTCL and sold the shares to Etisalat which led to

country wide protests and strikes by the PTCL workers. They disrupted many connections of public

sector buildings then military overtake the control of exchanges and arrested many workers put

themin jails. All of this ended up with a 30% increase in the salaries of workers.