In this world of technology and gadgets one should have little problem connecting to the internet on the globe. But things do not always turn out the way one wants them to be. I have been travelling a little of late and during this Gulliver's travels I have had little and patchy access to the cyberspace. This has been so for various reasons. But most of the times it has been due to the collective inefficient behavior of our nation. No one wants to do his/her share of work but likes to be paid for doing nothing.
Since the day I have come back to Jhang I have been trying to get an internet connection going. Since my needs for one are short term I, quite unwillingly, opted for PTCL's V Wireless telephone. I say unwillingly because i have had a terrible experience with their service the last time i tried to use it. Last year I persuaded my father to spend Rs. 2000 on a wireless telephone connection to meet our internet connection needs. The phone was bought in the hope that it will work flawlessly. But it is an attempt in vain to think that any service that Pakistani companies provide will be smooth. Far from that it took me 2 days to initialize my internet connection. I used the internet for mere week when a power failure at the PTCL installation facility rebooted their system and my internet connection was lost _ forever! I lodged a complaint and I was assured that my problem will be solved "within next 24 hours". Twenty Four hours passed, then another twenty four hours and then another twenty four hours and in the meanwhile all my complaints were answered with a complacent assuring reply that the problem will be solved, "within next 24 hours". Those 24 hours never arrived. No one at the complaint center was willing to introduce themselves so that I could talk to the same person and hope to get my problem solved. Instead every day I ended up with another ignorant Idiot who knew nothing about the service they were providing. I lodged a complaint with PTA. PTA were quick to issue a notice to PTCL asking for a response within a week. That week is yet to arrive. As the internet would not work and the PTCL would not budge I had no choice left but to change my telephone. I spent more money to buy another of the PTCL V Wireless phone. The phone had to be bought from black market as the PTCL staff at our city did not have any more phones left with them. The internet worked on this connection.
I was hoping that these wireless phones would change the way we connect to the internet. But far from changing the way the speeds i am getting are no better than a dial up connection. It took me one hour and thirty minutes to download Mozilla Firefox. This internet connection is pathetic and a rip off.
I would hate to say this but the Sheikhs of Arabia are taking over our productive sectors and turning them into white elephants. Our very own Muslim friends and brothers are milking our nation. KESC and PTCL are cases in point.
I would suggest that if at all anyone is trying to shift to PTCL's wireless phones for internet or telephone needs he/she needs to consider the problems. I have had similar bad experience in terms of voice quality on these phones.
Since the day I have come back to Jhang I have been trying to get an internet connection going. Since my needs for one are short term I, quite unwillingly, opted for PTCL's V Wireless telephone. I say unwillingly because i have had a terrible experience with their service the last time i tried to use it. Last year I persuaded my father to spend Rs. 2000 on a wireless telephone connection to meet our internet connection needs. The phone was bought in the hope that it will work flawlessly. But it is an attempt in vain to think that any service that Pakistani companies provide will be smooth. Far from that it took me 2 days to initialize my internet connection. I used the internet for mere week when a power failure at the PTCL installation facility rebooted their system and my internet connection was lost _ forever! I lodged a complaint and I was assured that my problem will be solved "within next 24 hours". Twenty Four hours passed, then another twenty four hours and then another twenty four hours and in the meanwhile all my complaints were answered with a complacent assuring reply that the problem will be solved, "within next 24 hours". Those 24 hours never arrived. No one at the complaint center was willing to introduce themselves so that I could talk to the same person and hope to get my problem solved. Instead every day I ended up with another ignorant Idiot who knew nothing about the service they were providing. I lodged a complaint with PTA. PTA were quick to issue a notice to PTCL asking for a response within a week. That week is yet to arrive. As the internet would not work and the PTCL would not budge I had no choice left but to change my telephone. I spent more money to buy another of the PTCL V Wireless phone. The phone had to be bought from black market as the PTCL staff at our city did not have any more phones left with them. The internet worked on this connection.
I was hoping that these wireless phones would change the way we connect to the internet. But far from changing the way the speeds i am getting are no better than a dial up connection. It took me one hour and thirty minutes to download Mozilla Firefox. This internet connection is pathetic and a rip off.
I would hate to say this but the Sheikhs of Arabia are taking over our productive sectors and turning them into white elephants. Our very own Muslim friends and brothers are milking our nation. KESC and PTCL are cases in point.
I would suggest that if at all anyone is trying to shift to PTCL's wireless phones for internet or telephone needs he/she needs to consider the problems. I have had similar bad experience in terms of voice quality on these phones.
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