March 5, 2002	Tuesday	Zilhaj 20, 1422

ISLAMABAD, March 4: Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) has prepared a special package containing multiple services and reduction in tariff for the corporate sector of the country.

“The government is privatizing the PTCL, and that is why we have decided to offer new special package of tariffs to the corporate sector with a view to promoting competition among the new players in the telecommunications.” This was stated by the chairman, PTCL, Akhtar Bajwa.

He told Dawn here on Monday that an appropriate customer care system having state-of-art services will also be offered to the people this year. “The new package, to be announced shortly, will help the PTCL to continue to be the biggest company even after losing its monopoly in December 2002,” he claimed.

Mr Bajwa said that tenders will be floated this year to further improve PTCL services including its billing system.

Asked about the package, the chairman PTCL said that suitable infrastructure will be laid to provide broad-based access to the corporate sector to run high speed data.

He said keeping in view the privatization, PTCL’s poor marketing needed to be improved by bifurcating market and customer services. He said restructuring of the PTCL was being done by having new billing and customer care software programmes.

Responding to a question he said that the expansion of the PTCL will continue despite its privatisation.