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.