PTCL Launches Broadband Entertainment Portal – gets closer to Triple-Play

March 1, 2008 4:29 pm 179 comments

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PTCL has made some interesting moves that the amazing community at Telecom Grid Pakistan has been discussing.

First has been a recent announcement via Dawn and other papers that starting from March they will be reducing their broadband charges significantly – Rs.2k for 1Mbps and Rs.5k for 2Mbps.

These are very competitive rates. In our experience with PTCL Broadband, if you can choose to look past the poor customer service and lack of support for small businesses (static IPs etc.) the actual service quality is pretty good. Added to that a good price point and this should be a very nice choice for people whose phone lines can support 2mbps connections etc.

Now they’ve announced the launch of a Broadband Entertainment Portal which gives access to music, movies, sports and more free of cost to PTCL Broadband subscribers.

It seems like the company is picking up, but I’d like to see their triple-play plans to be implemented soon – those plans are quite disruptive.

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  • aashba siddiqui

    i used ptcl service about 1 mnth…its not so good not so bad…..bas guzara hai
    i m here bcoz of ptcl buzz….ptcl buzz open hi nahi horaha….yeh sirf mera prob hai ya yahan aur bhi hain jinka yeh prob hai????
    jinta time inka advertisement pai spend hota hai agar thora bht internet service pai bhi laga lain to bht bht behtar hojaye inki service…

  • Faraz

    http://entertainment.ptcl.net/ is not working why?

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  • raqib khan

    i used ptcl service about 1 mnth…its not so good not so bad…..bas guzara hai
    i m here bcoz of ptcl buzz….ptcl buzz open hi nahi horaha….yeh sirf mera prob hai ya yahan aur bhi hain jinka yeh prob hai????
    jinta time inka advertisement pai spend hota hai agar thora bht internet service pai bhi laga lain to bht bht behtar hojaye inki service…

  • FUCK PTCL

    YA RIGHT IT”LL GO SUPER FAST FAST FOR THE 3MONTH TRIAL THAN IT SUCKS BALLS MAN FUCKING SHIT TALKER PTCL IS NOT WORTH A SHIT I WOULD LIKE TO PERSONALLY FUCK ALL THERE WOMEN WHO BEEN FEED OF OUR MONEY….

  • ashraf rana

    salam to all

    bhai hai koi allah ka bunda jo in PTCL waloon ko shifarish krey DSL connection key liye,

    mujhe DSL internet connection chahiey……………………

    regards,

  • ash

    yaar ye ptcl kitna bora hai uffffff koi use na kary khuch nahi ho raha

  • ashraf rana

    salam to all friends

    yaar phir kon saa DSL connection achha hai..?

  • faisao

    yar main nay evo lia soch k k speed achi hogi but have a very bad experience of it

  • Adeel

    my broadband DSL whose user name is 4285282 work very slow internet light turn of after every 10,5 minutes so please solve my this problem as early as possible the downloading speed will become very slow

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  • adnan

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    If anyone wants a WATEEN connection please do call me on this number..

    free delivery any where in lahore
    Thanx.

  • Farzan Saeed

    Since last three days my internet is not working properly! Iam not a noob at networking and I can bet that the problem isn’t from my side! 1218 operators don’t attend call! Is anyone having same problem??

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  • javed

    Hello, all
    i just want to warn you all, dat plz dont buy any thing from this guy, adnan, who is giving his number above in comments, he is just a fraud, a lier,
    there is no , 15 days money back guarantee from wateen, this guy claims every where that wateen will return all the initial amount which was 3100 in my case,
    there were no good signals, but thus guy said me, that u check this for 15 days, at any time, u want to return the device, u will get full amount back,
    but when the 2nd day, when i wished to returned device, that guy just kept me telling stories, dat m coming in 1 day,today, tomorrow,in 2 mins, etc,but never came
    and when disappointly i went to wateen frunchise, i came to knw dat wateen has no such policy,
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    and this guy just told lie to me, just to make his sales commission,
    and i returned device now, with half price, and with 10 days tension juzt because of this guys cheat,
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  • ahsan

    hey ptcl Rocks …
    ausam speed awsam pakages
    in short .. chak dey phatey :p

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  • mavrik

    why dont you guys give a try to LINK DSL, i have it and its working good.

  • maria

    bladdy baster salley ulley k phattey hian sab k sab corrupted loag

  • Sohaib

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  • Shahid Faridi

    Sub se acha ptcl hai, thori problem to aati hai, lakin phir bhe sub se acha hai.
    Ptcl intizamia se bhe guzarish hai k jo aarzi problem hai is ko solve karne k leye koi special force banae ta k logo ki problems dooor ho sake. thanks a lot
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  • prince sonia

    ptcl ki speed achi he lekin in ka entertenmen server nahi he na new movies na games na hi song waghera dek sakta he is k bagher ptcl bekar he bas ye ak khami he ye agar khatam ho jaie to pir ptcl best he nahi t bakwas he

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