By the dint of low-priced services by private mobile phone companies, the landline phone usage is declining rapidly. According to a survey, the mobile phone vendors are selling mobile phone chips to an average of 5 to 10 customers.
A PTCL landline user who recently applied for disconnection of his land phone as he mostly used mobile phone for the internet connection of a private company said, “In the yester years we were supposed to get recommendation for the connection of PTCL phone line from the influential but today things have changed and we use mobile phones which are much cheaper.”
Are Mobile Phone Affordable? One has to pay Rs 175/month as the line rent for a land-phone despite of the fact that many people do not use it, where as mobile phone chips offered by private mobile operating companies ranging from Rs 100 to Rs 185, which is far more affordable for the people as compared to the PTCL land-line that charges heavily.
PTCL is Having Tough Time: “Only in Karachi alone with a population of over 20 million, we had good number of clients but our customers are dwindling down with every passing day with applications for closure of the lines increasing”, an official of Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) reported this Monday. PTCL is also offering mobile phone and internet services which are efficient and reliable but the competition is really tough.
State Bank Helping PTCL to Stay: The PTCL has stakes of Dubai based Emirates Telecommuni-cations Corporation-Etisalat with shares of 26% and had inked the deal in 2006. However, the conditions imposed by State Bank of Pakistan helped PTCL as people were compelled to retain their land-phone lines because the bankers seek verification of loan applicants through their land-phone lines as mobile phone registration numbers were not acceptable.
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