Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited

 Pakstan Telecommunication Company is a national company whose job is to provide telephone and internet services to people across Pakistan. Today many companies are working in this field but PTCL's position in this field. It's like the backbone. The company was once wholly owned by the government of Pakistan but due to incompetence and wrong decisions of the governments today 26% of its shares have been transferred to a private company and 12% to the public. There was a strong protest from the people as giving such institutions to the private sector was an abuse of the people. Private companies do business for the benefit of the people. They move forward by looking at the revenue, not the need. 62% of the shares of this company are still owned by the government of Pakistan, so in practice it still has the status of a government owned company.

The invention of the telephone is credited to Alexander Graham Bell, who made the first telephone in 1876. About six or seven years later, on 28 January 1882, Major Bering, a member of the Governor-General's Council of India, announced the establishment of telephone exchanges at three locations in India, at Calcutta, Bombay and Madras. The Calcutta Exchange was renamed the Central Exchange and was housed in the Public Works Department building. There were a total of 93 lines in this exchange. This exchange operated through the operator and the operator would connect to the other line at the request of the owner of one line. Number phones came much later. The first automatic phone was installed in 1914 in Shimla. At the time of partition, a total of 82,000 phones were working in India and Pakistan. Of these, just over twelve thousand (12346) calls came from Pakistan. This department was initially attached to the Department of Posts and Wires. Thus the telephone became part of the Pakistan Postal and Telegraph Department (Telephone and Telegraph Department) which came into existence in 1949. In 1962, it was renamed as Pakistan Telecommunication and became an independent corporation. At present, about 2,000 exchanges are operating across Pakistan under this organization, with buildings worth trillions of rupees, and this company is providing landline phone, internet and telecommunication infrastructure across Pakistan. A mobile phone company called Ufone is also part of it. Among other mobile service providers, Jazz ranks first with 70 million customers, Telenor second with 50 million customers and Zong third with 40 million customers. PTCL's company ranks fourth and last with 20 million customers, which is unfortunate. Despite the basic and extensive telecommunication infrastructure, PTCL is unable to provide internet in most parts of Pakistan. PTCL relies heavily on the landline, but in today's situation it is a sinking ship. Landlines around the world are running out. The UK recently announced that it will end its traditional landline by 2025, as new digital reforms will allow Internet access to phone calls to all homes and businesses.

In the next five years, PTCL's landline in Pakistan will naturally be exhausted. But unfortunately our institutions like PTCL are not ready to deal with the situation. Of course, the internet is great, but the performance and behavior of its staff is by no means compatible with modern style and principles.