In today’s rapidly changing business environment the reliance on automated processes, and IT systems that underpin them, has grown. Systems must not only be available around-the-clock, but must offer protection and security for both customers’ information and the company’s data. However, few companies have the resources or desire to handle every aspect of their e-business infrastructure in-house. Increasingly, companies are turning to PTCL for the resources and skills they need to achieve a reliable, responsive and resilient infrastructure to suit their needs.

Data Center Sites:

• Karachi
• Lahore

Services:

• 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>/li>

After the successful launch of Regional and Local call packages in rural and semi-urban areas of Pakistan, Capped minutes were tested through special NTC packages in Lahore, Karachi and Sukkur. The customer feedback has hinted towards a latent demand for capped on-net packages especially in current economic condition where people want to budget their expenses.

Budget Plan Packages

1. Basic Budget (For Low end Users)

• Package charges: of Rs. 249 per month
• Free minutes : 200 On-Net minutes
• Line rent: Zero
• Package type: Opt In
• Subscription: 1^st of next month

2. Budget Plus (For Low to Medium Users)

• Package charges: of Rs. 399 per month
• Free minutes : 400 On-Net minutes
• Line rent: Zero
• Package type: Opt In
• Subscription: 1^st of next month

• Package charges: of Rs. 699 per month
• Free minutes : 750 On-Net minutes
• Line rent: Zero
• Package type: Opt In
• Subscription: 1^st of next month

4. Business Budget (For Business / Commercial users)

• Package charges: of Rs. 1,999 per month
• Free minutes : 3,000 On-Net minutes
• Line rent: Zero
• Package type: Opt In
• Subscription: 1^st of next month

PTCL has launched the most awaited product EVO 3G Nitro in Pakistan. EVO 3G Nitro uses EVDO Rev. B Technology and gives upto 9.3 mbps.

Price:
USB Charges: Rs.3, 999 – One time charge
Nitro Unlimited: Rs.2, 999 monthly

More information about EVO 3G Nitro

This is Pakistan’s fastest wireless broadband internet which gives speed upto 9.3 mbps & uplink upto 5.4 mbps. Average data speed varies b/w 1 mbps to 3mbps. Existing Evo customers can upgrade their devices.

Instant connectivity, just plug and play. High speed USB compatible with any laptop, desktop, netbook.

Unlimited downloads and fast HQ video streaming and uploads.

Official EVO 3G Nitro EVDO REV B link.

• Cruise with Matchless Speed of up to 9.3 Mbps.*
• Enhanced user experience
• Faster web browsing
• High Quality Video Streaming
• Unlimited Downloads
• Faster uploads
• Plug & Play—Instant Connectivity
• USB compatible with laptops & Desktops.
• Average data rates vary between 1.25 Mbps- 3.75 Mbps
• Backward compatibility & seamless roaming on Rev A Network (up to 3.1Mbps) in 99 cities across the country.
•Device Upgrades available for existing Evo customers.

*Speed is on Best effort basis up to 9.3Mbps on downlink & 5.4Mbps on Uplink. Speed depends on factors such as modem capability, location, distance from communication tower and number of simultaneous users.

PTCL has doubled its broadband data rate speed and upgraded all its existing 2Mbps customers to 4Mbps data rate on the same tariff and all existing 4Mbps customers have been upgraded to 6Mbps data service at the same tariff. In addition a new 8Mbps package has also been introduced. PTCL will have the following data rates for all its broadband existing and new customers with effect from July 15^th 2010.

1. 1Mbps at Rs 1199
2. 4Mbps at Rs 1999
3. 6Mbps at Rs 4999
4. 8Mbps at Rs 6999

Facebook Boycott on 20th May 2010

Facebook is Going to Get Banned in Pakistan

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has blocked the popular video sharing website YouTube in a bid to contain blasphemous material, officials said on Thursday.

The blockade came hours after the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) directed Internet service providers to stop access to social network Facebook indefinitely on Wednesday because of an online competition to draw the Prophet Mohammad (Peace be upon him) in gross violation of fundamental human rights pertaining to one’s religion.

Wahaj-us-Siraj, the CEO of Nayatel, an Internet service provider, said PTA issued an order late on Wednesday seeking an “immediate” blockade of YouTube.

“It was a serious instruction as they wanted us to do it quickly and let them know after that,” he said while talking to a UK-based news agency.

YouTube was also blocked in the Muslim country in 2007 for about a year for what it called un-Islamic videos.

A PTA official, who declined to be identified, said the action was taken after the authority determined that some sacrilegious caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad were transferred from Facebook to YouTube.

Representation of any prophet is deemed un-Islamic and blasphemous in Islam, let alone the caricature or cartoon of these divine personages.

Siraj said the blocking of the two websites would cut up to 25 percent of total Internet traffic in Pakistan.

“It’ll have an impact on the overall Internet traffic as they eat up 20 to 25 percent of the country’s total 65 giga-bytes traffic,” he said.

Publications of similar cartoons in Danish newspapers in 2005 sparked deadly protests in Muslim countries. Around 50 people were killed during violent protests in Muslim countries in 2006 over the cartoons, five of them in Pakistan.

Al Qaeda claimed responsibility for a suicide attack on Denmark’s embassy in Islamabad in 2008, killing six people, saying it was in revenge for publication of the caricatures.