PTCL offers free internet services from October 18

Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) has decided to offer free internet services to all its customers, effective from October 18, 2008.

Dr Sadik Al-Jadir, Senior Executive Vice President SEVP Commercial stated, "With this perspective, PTCL, the largest IP service provider in Pakistan now brings a revolutionary offer for all its landline subscribers, which is unmatched anywhere in the world.

Sadik said that PTCL landline subscribers could now experience the best dial up speeds with unlimited internet usage during night hours from 10:00 pm to 07:00 am and they could avail up to 100 hours of free dialup internet on monthly basis from 07:00 am to 10:00 pm every day. He further said that to access the internet subscriber should simply dial 131-7777 with "ptcl" as login and password.

From October 18th, PTCL customers availing unlimited dialup internet package of Rs 199/month will not be charge anymore. However, customer exceeding 100 hr of free internet during day time will be charged as per existing tariff of PTCL dial up internet of Rs 6/h. in addition, PTCL is also shifting customers of value plus (Rs 75/month for 20 hrs of dial up internet) to basic plus, which has no additional charges effective from November 1, 2008, he added.

In this connection, this Free Internet offer has replaced their limited time (3 months) free local calls promotion allowing free local calls between 11pm to 6am, which has ended in October.