Many multi-national telecommunication companies were invited to bid for the expansion and rehabilitation of PTC telecommunication network. Alcatel, Ericsson, NEC were among the successful companies.
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Government of Pakistan promises to change the crumbling telecommunications infrastructure by replacing old exchange equipment, increasing capacity of the exchanges, reinforcing telecommunications networks, and addition of new and better services. Many multi-national telecommunication companies were invited to bid for the expansion and rehabilitation of PTC telecommunication network. Alcatel, Ericsson, NEC were among the successful companies. |
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786 BBS is major milestone in bringing the benefits of connectivity to public at a time when modems were generally considered ‘not workable’ on the PTC phone lines. The BBS started with a single phone line. A 2400 baud non-error correcting modem was considered adequate. 786 became so popular that the only phone line remained busy many a times. Then came the second phone line and the facility to read mail off-line which considerably reduced the on-line time. 786 BBS provided the computer community of Karachi a place where they can talk, exchange views, make friends, share software and much more. In fact it were the people that made the 786 BBS so rich in its environment. The BBS now has five telephone lines. Ever since Digicom launched its On-line Internet access the popularity of the 786 BBS was overshadowed by the WWW and FTP services. 786 BBS still enjoys a large membership and a lot shareware software to download. The BBS also has Internet E-mail facility and ILINK Newsfeeds. Sysop: Shabbir Damani, Co-sysop: Javed Khamisani |
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Brain Net a Lahore based company launched Internet E-mail facility Brain Computer Services is a company run by two brothers Basit Alvi, and ______. These two brothers astonished the world by writing the world’s first computer virus ‘BRAIN’ which had the purpose of rendering the bootleg software useless. |
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Pak Datacom became the first high-tech public limited company to be listed on the Karachi Stock Exchange. Pak Datacom became the only company to provide high speed links within and outside the country. Pak Datacom is a subsidiary of Telecom foundation. The current share price for a Rs. 10 share of Pak Datacom is Rs. 28 (May 7, 1996) |
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SDNP is UNDP (United Nations Development Program) sponsored. This service is being run on a no-profit basis. The project was started in Islamabad and soon after that Lahore and Karachi were on the E-mail network. In Lahore SDN is run in collaboration of EDUNET whereas in Karachi SDN e-mail services are being run with in coordination with IUCN. SDN brought E-mail to the masses. |
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Infolink started E-mail service Not much known Infolink started its E-mail service in parallel to other e-mail providers. It has its offices in all the major cities of Pakistan. A couple of months ago Infolink announced its Web site for public advertising in collaboration with Prestige Communications. |
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Digicom launched E-mail service and BBS in all major cities of Pakistan
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Government of Pakistan imposes per year license fee for Internet service providers operating on commercial basis. This resulted in protests from several quarters including foreign press and media. |
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Dawn Wire Service Launched The Daily DAWN launched Dawn Wire Service a weekly e-mail newsletter covering news from Pakistan. Other news papers also followed including The News, ++ |
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Formation of PSEB Government of Pakistan announced several incentives for software development ventures. Pakistan Software Export Board was formed with the objectives to ‘produce armies of software programmers’ and to attract foreign investment in the field of software development. |
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Digicom Pakistan (Pvt.) Ltd. Became the first company to provide on-line Internet access. After the first few weeks membership grew at an exponential rate. Initially only six telephone lines were available which soon grew to 35+. Requests for membership were so much that Digicom had to temporarily stop new memberships in order to give adequate service to the existing subscribers. There are an estimated 1200+ members for the Digicom Online services. The service is time charged at Rs. 10 per 6 minutes or Rs. 100 per hour (during peak hours 8:00 AM to 10:00 PM). During the off-peak hours the charges are reduced by 50%. |
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Pakistan Telecommunications Corporation (PTC) announced new frame relay and packet switched facilities offering higher data band width |
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The old PDN equipment which was installed in 80’s is being replaced by newer one. |
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PTC announced PAKNET which provides Internet access through shell accounts |
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FASCOM announces internet access services in Karachi. |
