Broadband Counter Strike By PTCL

July 12, 2007 8:20 pm 112 comments

In line with government’s plan and PTA’s Broadband policy to increase penetration of Internet in general and broadband in specific, PTCL has rolled out a new promotion “Broadband Pakistan”. PTCL has also slashed rates for Internet Service Providers (ISP’s). Besides PTCL’s much discussed brand reputation for different products, service issues, past experiences from Paknet and aggressive resistance from ISP’s in this regard, the overall launch of this new service by PTCL has been much aggressive and comprehensive.

From packages to marketing communication, PTCL has done much better this time in comparison to roll out of its previous products. Broadband packages are being offered for as low as Rs1199/month for port speed of 256kbps, especially 1Mbps @ Rs4999/month has grabbed them serious attention from potential prospects including SMEs, Call centers, Cable operators besides individual/residential users. Huge billboards displaying “Get Thrilled, Go DSL” and huge banners hanging at all PTCL exchanges have helped marketing of initial roll out.

ptcl_products_thumb.jpgThe response from customers in this phase is mixed. Questions have been raised with respect to shared bandwidth, technical support, service quality and putting caps on port speeds, however, so far customers have good remarks to share i.e. getting over 110kbps on average at 1Mbps circuit is almost dedicated bandwidth. Furthermore, keeping in view that PTCL has just revamped and stepped into this segment, problems at initial stage are no exception. On the other hand one knows that if PTCL keeps things moving in the right direction, they have the biggest network, infrastructure, resources and financial strength to serve customers smoothly nationwide. Moreover, the scenario for service quality, bandwidth and technical support will get clearer after six months or a year when PTCL will have ample traffic to manage. Right now, for broadband segment, things are going in favor of PTCL.

The case for other Internet Service Providers (ISP’s) in competition with PTCL is also valid. ISP’s have been unable to slash down the prices to meet aggressive move by PTCL as they are purchasing bandwidth at very high price. On the other hand, all major ISP’s have been serving the market since long and definitely have developed strong subscriber base and competence on service standards.

Now PTCL has announced bandwidth tariff reduction on Saturday 7th July, 2007, providing fair battleground to ISP’s up to some extent. 37% tariff reduction has been announced for Karachi based companies and 25% for other telecom regions. This will help ISP’s to make their tariff’s competitive, but is this going to be a healthy practice? Will it help ISP’s to sustain their operations in long run? ISP’s have already been in cut-throat competition over individual, SMEs and Corporate customers and pricing has been the core differentiating factor. Now, reducing prices means reducing revenues and to check revenue companies will require aggressive marketing efforts to increase volume, but customers will keep on switching ISP’s. Co-location costs, stream charges, network maintenance, equipment depreciation, OPEX & CAPEX will keep on adding obstacles in long term stability for ISP’s. Telecommunication industry is evolving to a phase where there will be a battle over networks for competitive advantage. Companies must understand that PTCL is not a Government enterprise anymore; they are just another competitor with its own strengths and weaknesses.

Their competitors will eventually have to find out ways to move to their own infrastructure, remove the major dependency if not 100% to get rid of the enormous costs being paid to PTCL and from dependency on its network to react strategically, otherwise anytime PTCL reduces the price, babies will keep crying. Two companies Multinet Pakistan (Pvt.) Ltd (A Telecom Malaysia Company) and Wateen Telecom have already taken lead and are laying Optical Fiber Backbones (Long Haul) over 5000kms from Karachi to Peshawar. Multinet has also laid OFC redundant rings (Metronet) in LHR and KHI and is doing so in ISB. Wateen is ambitious and aggressive about its WiMAX. However, the importance of the fact here is that companies with their own networks will not remain dependant upon PTCL and will have various revenue sources. They will provide broadband, WiMAX, Managed services, Bulk bandwidth, IPLC, DPLC, VOIP, Video Over IP etc to all from individual users to commercial giants and only such companies will be able to compete with PTCL in long run.

Written By Atif Tahir – originally published at State of Telecom in Pakistan blog .

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  • mai lahore se belong kerta hooo baghbanpura shalamar town lhr…mai ne 26 october 2008 ko order replace kerwaya tha laikin mai phone ker ker k thak gia hooo abhi tak mera net conect nahi howa hai …kahte hai 7 working days ki woking ho geeee mujey lagta hai k in k calender mai abhi 7 days nahi howe

  • I am also facing problems in order to get my PTCL Broadband connection as i applied on 26th of october n I am still waiting for there humble response

  • Hi all. I’m gamer, use to play online, but i got ping or latency proble during day time. At night it work great but night means 3 hours. I want the solution for this ping or latency thing. Is that PTCL broadband problem?

  • Want to make counter strike 1.6 server contact me at t_sam181618@hotmail.com for Pakistanis only thankz :D on msn

  • Believe it… Believe me.. and Believe all the guys up… that PTCL is limiting bandwidth in means of DOWNLOADS…

    Anyone has idea of SQUID… if no then try searching terms delay-pools and Limiting Downloads using SQUID. and you will see what pTCL is doing with its customers in meaning of BROADBAND…

    WHAT is the use of broadband of 2mbps if people cannot download a movie of 2Gig in 1 or two hours ?

    Simply Rubish !

  • Aslamualikum i am ali butt from sialkot pakistan i am student 12th class pakistan

  • i want to buy a v-warlees

  • In ptcl we r nuh hvin any typ of such activities liek cs and any website where we can download songs and the speed is to slow em using 256mb

  • I think ptcl providing awesome services other than broadband in karachi. the best thing is that unlimited package downloading and other dsl are not providing good feedback on a fiber line its working fine but some where they are lack but inshallah they will improve

  • IF ANYONE WANTS TO APPLY FOR NEW DSL CONNECTION AND WANTS TO GET 30% ON THAT WITHOUT ANY PROBLEM, CONTACT ME 03334137446

  • well i hve problem orderin ptcl student pakage i hve tried usin on internet explorar as well and it works with the code but the city never show up and …it does not load on the new click as i click on the next type :-( …help me orderin …thnx

  • Salam bhai ager kisi ko yahan cs1.6 ka server banana aata hay online to plzz zaoroor batana mein nay sub use karliya steam non steam pata nahi kya kya lakin server nahi bana paya broad band ptcl hay 1mb ka mere pass. plz

  • ptcl is too good. service is awesome on the other providers.

  • DSL is a great thing. I did not need to wait for downloading. It is too fast. Net speed is 1000 Kbps. It saves my time.

  • DSL is a bad thing. I did not need to wait for downloading. It is too fast. Net speed is 1000 Kbps. It saves my time.

  • 221.120.202.182:27015
    221.120.202.182:27016
    221.120.202.182:27017
    221.120.202.182:27018
    221.120.202.182:27019

    Above are the ptcl cs gaming servers i am still using these………

  • HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA

  • cs k serwer bata dejiye main karachi se hon area sultanabad plz help me plz is ip ki bata du 192.168.1.10

  • abhi batao plz

  • plz bata du i am waitin plz

  • plz bata du counter strike ptcl pe show hone wale serwer

  • plz abhi batao counter strike ptcl pe show hone wale serwer ki p plz

  • “farha” chill maro!!!!!

  • Golkiper (zaini)

    hello guys how are u all…i play counter strike with madness…my nick in counter strike is Golkiper…if any one want to make counter strike server free than contact me…zain_virgo2006@yahoo.com…mein nay boht mehanat say seekha hai…liken mein help karta hoon…q k meri tarha app log bhi cs k fan hain..sooooooo contact me…221.120.202.182:27015
    221.120.202.182:27016..these 2 are good server try it…..

  • Hi, when i try to connect to 221.120.202.182:27015 but i get kicked out and the error is INVALID HARDWARE ID. can someone help me with it

  • PTCL is now the leader in consumer broadband in Pakistan, leading the country into 21st century.

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  • How can i download the sXe injected client for playing cs on ptcl server.

    i have installed sXe injected client 8.0 but it is saying that older version is installed on server and they kicked me off.

    what should i do….?

  • First uninstall sxe n then reinstall new sxe.
    I hope it will work

  • can Any 1 send me fresh ips of PTCL server

  • Im using PTCL im trying make a server on CStrike to play with my frnd, i gave him my ip e.g. 116.71.xx.xx:27015 , but he could not connect to it & my server is not showing up.
    Wats wrong with it?? Does anything to do with sxe-injected???? HELP!

  • Invalid Hardware Error in my cs of ptcl , What is that Error, Invalid Hardware ID

  • i have problem , Invalid Hardware ID…..

    what is that

  • i have problem.most of the server i wana connect and i was kick out by error invalid hardware id.plz help about this wats it mean and wat should i do

  • i have new problem , portforwarding ka option open nahi ho raha , kia masla hai , mera modem shiro ka hai ptcl say koi help nahi mili mujay , ab complain karon ga bhai , sab , senior staff ki , plz tell me last time i say , ok , bye sir

  • dear hasan , Invalid id error , sxe ki waja say aa raha hai jani , us version 8.0 kar lo , phr game say kick nahi hogay , ok if any prolem then tell me ok,

  • thank baber bhai ma abi try kerta ho..ager thek ho gya tu ap ko bataoo ga…….thankx for helping me babar

  • And this Notepad Document appears after the game crashes. :

    2008/07/13 22:57:43 -
    2008/07/13 22:57:43 – ——————
    2008/07/13 22:57:43 – sXe-I dll starting
    2008/07/13 22:57:43 – version: 8.0
    2008/07/13 22:57:48 – **** Hooked
    2008/07/13 22:57:48 – **** Message [0]
    2008/07/13 22:57:48 – **** Alias Offline
    2008/07/13 22:57:48 – **** Backup ready
    2008/07/13 22:57:48 – **** Open success
    2008/07/13 22:57:48 – **** ControlTime [17789859]
    2008/07/13 22:57:48 – **** Link ready
    2008/07/13 22:57:48 – **** Listen server Offline
    2008/07/13 22:57:48 – **** GL Command Offline
    2008/07/13 22:57:48 – **** Finish [7112]
    2008/07/13 22:58:25 – * Game Altered, remove modifications * (b) [30]
    2008/07/13 22:58:25 – **** Remote Ip: 203.81.204.44
    2008/07/13 22:58:25 – VALIDO
    2008/07/13 23:07:24 – sXe-I dll closing

    ye error ata hia bhai saab.plz help me kaisay iss ko solve kero…..buhat try ker chuka ho but kuch samaj nai ati hai

  • 2009/11/05 09:12:02 –
    2009/11/05 09:12:02 – ——————
    2009/11/05 09:12:02 – sXe-I dll starting
    2009/11/05 09:12:02 – version: 8.0 (Fix 3.0)
    2009/11/05 09:12:02 – **** Driver Initialization
    2009/11/05 09:12:02 – **** Open success
    2009/11/05 09:12:02 – **** Link ready
    2009/11/05 09:12:02 – **** Image ready
    2009/11/05 09:12:02 – **** Gather ready
    2009/11/05 09:12:02 – **** Trying protocol 47
    2009/11/05 09:12:02 – **** Validations ready
    2009/11/05 09:12:05 – **** Half-Life protocol 47
    2009/11/05 09:12:05 – hooking…
    2009/11/05 09:12:05 – result…[0]
    2009/11/05 09:12:05 – **** Hooked
    2009/11/05 09:12:05 – **** Message [0]
    2009/11/05 09:12:05 – **** Message H [0]
    2009/11/05 09:12:05 – **** Message M [0]
    2009/11/05 09:12:05 – **** Message D [0]
    2009/11/05 09:12:05 – **** Alias Offline[1]
    2009/11/05 09:12:05 – **** Listen server Offline
    2009/11/05 09:12:05 – **** Gateway installed
    2009/11/05 09:12:05 – **** Backup ready
    2009/11/05 09:12:05 – **** ControlTime [4073612]
    2009/11/05 09:12:05 – **** GL Command Offline
    2009/11/05 09:12:05 – **** Finish [2040]
    2009/11/05 09:12:34 – Difference [29156][31468] = Diff[2312] = [7.35%]
    2009/11/05 09:12:34 – **** Remote Ip: 221.120.202.182
    2009/11/05 09:12:34 – **** Game bpp [32]
    2009/11/05 09:12:34 – * Game Altered, remove modifications * (gamed) [cstrike\maps\de_inferno.bsp][a83075967a9e6c1178cc84cbf55b016c]
    2009/11/05 09:12:35 – * Game Altered, remove modifications * (gamed) [cstrike\maps\de_inferno.bsp][a83075967a9e6c1178cc84cbf55b016c]
    2009/11/05 09:12:35 –
    2009/11/05 09:12:37 – **** Validating smoke…
    2009/11/05 09:12:38 – sXe-I dll closing

    bhai jaan ye error ata hai jab b server connect hota hai ..aur game off ho jati hia.plzzz help me yaaar plzzzzzzzz

  • BABER bhai plzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz help me…….

  • dear Hassan tum mujay call kar lo yaar , smaal brother call per bata don ga , aysay samj nahi aye ga , my no cell 03003034918.,03133228978

  • Team Fortress 2: Server uses different class of tables. This error occurs whenever i connect to any server of its. Any solution?

  • plz help me when ever i join the server of cs it will kicked & the error occurs “INVALID HARDWARE ID” plz help me out……….

  • sir i m using ptcl v wireless now i m receiving massage form scraibd All download limits exceeded from your IP (221.120.250.101). and can not download more documents so what i do please help me i will be very thank full to u

  • hi all..
    bahi kese ke pass cs ke ip ho jis me ptcl ke net me letency kam ahe to plz bata dain,,
    thankzz..

  • Ali Rah , Letency tu sab mai kaam ati hai , Aap apna console open karna us mai ye command dena , rate 25000

    agar ap nay kisi say share tu nahi kia huwa na

  • yar jo hassan ka sath masla arha hai same mery sath b wo hi masla ha …. is k koi solution hai tu plz post ker dain…

  • 2010/03/09 13:19:16 –
    2010/03/09 13:19:16 – ——————
    2010/03/09 13:19:16 – sXe-I dll starting
    2010/03/09 13:19:16 – version: 8.7
    2010/03/09 13:19:16 – **** Driver Initialization
    2010/03/09 13:19:16 – **** Open success
    2010/03/09 13:19:16 – **** OGL started
    2010/03/09 13:19:16 – **** Link ready
    2010/03/09 13:19:16 – **** Image ready
    2010/03/09 13:19:16 – **** Gather ready
    2010/03/09 13:19:16 – **** Trying protocol 47
    2010/03/09 13:19:16 – [7C80A417]
    2010/03/09 13:19:16 – 8B FF 55 8B EC 51 51 8D 45 F8 50 FF 75 08 FF 15 CC 13 80 7C 85 C0 0F 8C A0 74 03 00 83 7D F8 00 0F 84 A0 74 03 00 33 C0
    2010/03/09 13:19:16 – **** Validations ready
    2010/03/09 13:19:17 – **** Half-Life protocol 47
    2010/03/09 13:19:17 – hooking…
    2010/03/09 13:19:17 – result…[0]
    2010/03/09 13:19:17 – **** OGL success
    2010/03/09 13:19:17 – **** Hooked
    2010/03/09 13:19:17 – **** Message [0]
    2010/03/09 13:19:17 – **** Message H [0]
    2010/03/09 13:19:17 – **** Message M [0]
    2010/03/09 13:19:17 – **** Message D [0]
    2010/03/09 13:19:17 – **** Alias Offline[1]
    2010/03/09 13:19:17 – **** Listen server Offline
    2010/03/09 13:19:17 – **** Gateway installed
    2010/03/09 13:19:17 – **** Backup ready
    2010/03/09 13:19:17 – **** ControlTime [7015157]
    2010/03/09 13:19:17 – **** GL Command Offline
    2010/03/09 13:19:17 – **** Finish [1988]
    2010/03/09 13:19:38 – **** Game bpp [32]
    2010/03/09 13:19:39 – * Game Altered, remove modifications * (model) [cstrike\models\v_awp.mdl][4b6e10de46a1c1de9bfdfd70a5c3fb69]
    2010/03/09 13:19:39 – * Game Altered, remove modifications * (model) [cstrike\models\v_awp.mdl][4b6e10de46a1c1de9bfdfd70a5c3fb69]
    2010/03/09 13:19:39 – * Game Altered, remove modifications * (model) [cstrike\models\v_awp.mdl][4b6e10de46a1c1de9bfdfd70a5c3fb69]
    2010/03/09 13:19:39 – * Game Altered, remove modifications * (model) [cstrike\models\v_awp.mdl][4b6e10de46a1c1de9bfdfd70a5c3fb69]
    2010/03/09 13:19:39 – * Game Altered, remove modifications * (model) [cstrike\models\v_awp.mdl][4b6e10de46a1c1de9bfdfd70a5c3fb69]
    2010/03/09 13:19:39 – * Game Altered, remove modifications * (model) [cstrike\models\v_scout.mdl][9260cf97454cf7bc15fc542a650eead3]
    2010/03/09 13:19:39 – * Game Altered, remove modifications * (model) [cstrike\models\v_scout.mdl][9260cf97454cf7bc15fc542a650eead3]
    2010/03/09 13:19:39 – * Game Altered, remove modifications * (model) [cstrike\models\v_scout.mdl][9260cf97454cf7bc15fc542a650eead3]
    2010/03/09 13:19:39 – * Game Altered, remove modifications * (model) [cstrike\models\v_scout.mdl][9260cf97454cf7bc15fc542a650eead3]
    2010/03/09 13:19:39 – * Game Altered, remove modifications * (model) [cstrike\models\v_scout.mdl][9260cf97454cf7bc15fc542a650eead3]
    2010/03/09 13:19:39 – **** Remote Ip: 221.120.202.182
    2010/03/09 13:19:39 – **** Validating smoke…
    2010/03/09 13:19:40 – sXe-I dll closing

  • dear jahanzaib yaar call kar kay poch lo , meri number uper hai , then i will tell u

  • merey pass cs game ptcl ki taraf se nahin chall raha hai agar chalta hai to bech main sxe injected required ata hai plz yeh masalah hull kardein thanks

  • hi jetendar kumar

    si side say sxe injected lay version 8.8
    phir install kar kay , usay on kar lena phir error end khatam hojaye ga
    http://www.sxe-anticheat.com

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