PESHAWAR, Nov 12: With the provision of Caller Line Identification (CLI) facility the complaints about obnoxious calls have almost come to the zero level.

In a Press release here on Monday, a spokesman for Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) said that due to the multi-dimensional utility of this value-added service more and more PTCL subscribers were applying to get it.

The PTCL northern region-1 had provided Callers’ Line Identification (CLI) to 2313 subscribers, bringing the total number of CLI subscribers to 52006, it stated.

According to it 90 per cent of exchanges in the region had been digitalized and updated while working was going on in full swing to digitalize the remaining exchange in order to extend the CLI as well as the newly-introduced value-added services to all the PTCL customers.”

Furthermore, the Press release stated that more than 30 SDE exchanges of Swat, Dir, Chitral, Charsadda, Peshawar and adjacent areas had been recently converted to RLUs to provide modern telecom facilities including internet, detail billing and CLI to subscribers.