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Posted on December 18, 2005 | This post has 560 views

*sigh*

How do you people manage to be NO Lazy. lol. I am fed up of my laziness. Isn’t giving me any good but causing harm…

I despite of all efforts cannot write something which isnt related to Computers or Technology. I certainly don’t want to tell private things over here, I got the best people from Allah regarding that :-D. So why should I waste my time by telling things here? Hehe.

I need consistency in studies. Just pray and drop a few comments if you can about how to be consistent and all that.

I think it’s time for me to sue this ISP! Actually to sue all ISPs of Pakistan since their service is just terrible. It will not work properly when you are at an emergency. It will make you cry! I just hate their speed. I think it’s some kinda POLICY of them, the more user will be online the more will we fill our pockets! Who knows…Unlimited Dial-up packages were once very expensive and not something every person could afford but now prices have dropped. You can get unlimited for something which you had to pay for 50-100 hours per month in some cases! I don’t know when the situation will improve. We need DSL/Broadband/High Speed Internet and I wonder when will it reach us. PTCL is the only Telephone service provider in Pakistan & they are the ones who are controlling the Gateways for Internet traffic coming to and going out of Pakistan. They are improving too but only reason is competition. More Companies are getting chance to get in Pakistan.

PTCL has done a few blunders in the past. As said, they used to be the ones who would control Internet. All Internet backbone to Pakistan was controlled by them, so they had set very high prices for bandwidth usage for ISPs other than their own (PakNET Online). Then a time came when they blocked VOIP (Voice over IP or Voice over Internet in other words). They blocked it with reasons that it’s causing a harm to their Telephone services. Why? Because they used to charge say Rs.80 per minute to USA whereas VOIP in some cases was free and in other was only a few Rupees per minute! Free for PC 2 PC calls and a bit of charges for PC 2 Phone calls. Then they decided to get “ISLAMIC” and do something which would stop the masses of Pakistan from surfing pornography, Pakistani IT experts were harsh on PTCL for this purpose, fine blocking such content is very good thing but the methods they used for blocking were just useless, one could easily by pass it and they wasted millions on it without getting the result. PTCL bought only one Internet back bone for it self to be used by all Pakistan, which usually cuts down atleast once in a year’s time causing damage to our economy and people. There was no Internet for many days a few months ago…

Looks like the situation is improving now. More and more Companies are coming and investing in Pakistan. Broadband/DSL providers have started working in the large cities of Pakistan with reasonable prices too, but I hear their speeds are still bad. Reason for that is usual Telephone copper lines. They are old now, we will only get full speed if these lines are upgraded fully forever. I read a jobs notice yesterday in news papers, a new Telecom company is starting to lay its own cable in the Capital Islamabad for broadband internet and Telephone services, so I hope the situation will improve. Plus, Warid Tel has also planned to lay fibre optic cable across Pakistan, they will start their own Telephone service + broadband and they will be providing bandwidths to ISPs too in very reasonable prices which will effect the end users too, like me! ETISALAT is the company who bought 25 percent of PTCL in an open auction, now they are unable to pay for it. I have heard its because they are not able to make banks give them money to be invested in Pakistan…If ETISALAT takes over PTCL, it will improve by leaps and bounds…insha’Allah.

Let’s just hope…

I have been labelled as Microsoft lover and Bill Gates big time fan too and they said I try to defend their products too much. I mean why not? Its because of Microsoft and Bill Gates that we have reached here. They were the ones who gave future visions of things. They are the ones building more and more. Then they call Billy stole software from Apple and IBM and bla bla bla. My foot! You are all loosers :p. When you cannot compete a Company you just put them in court and label them as “CHEATERS” and “BAD PLAYERS” and wat not. If your products were good enough, they would have struck through! Mozilla’s example is in front of you…

Another thing, “It’s better to fail than to cheat.” Right? But when someone fails why are they not welcome? Why are those passed through who cheat?

What a world this is…Wonderful!

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