Comments on: Need For Better Local Internet Clearing In Pakistan http://telecompk.net/2007/10/19/need-for-better-local-internet-clearing-in-pakistan/ A blog about telecommunication marketplace in Pakistan with news, information, analysis and trends Tue, 16 Mar 2010 20:17:54 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: farzal http://telecompk.net/2007/10/19/need-for-better-local-internet-clearing-in-pakistan/comment-page-1/#comment-3437 farzal Wed, 24 Oct 2007 19:28:22 +0000 http://telecompk.net/2007/10/19/need-for-better-local-internet-clearing-in-pakistan/#comment-3437 why dont the local ISPs set up a neutral Internet exchange point? why dont the local ISPs set up a neutral Internet exchange point?

]]> By: Phil http://telecompk.net/2007/10/19/need-for-better-local-internet-clearing-in-pakistan/comment-page-1/#comment-3065 Phil Sat, 20 Oct 2007 12:10:15 +0000 http://telecompk.net/2007/10/19/need-for-better-local-internet-clearing-in-pakistan/#comment-3065 I do agree with most of what is said. Now that PTCL is in the BroadBand game it would indeed be funny to see PTA reducing tarriff per bandwidth consumed all over. Or subsidizing bandwidth for PTCL giving them unfair advantage over other rivals against which the industry should rise up eventually. There is also a very grim need to do something about Pakistan's intranet, not just the three or four major cities, but we need more gateways for smaller towns and cities connected with better medium and capacity. I hear people in Okara, Gujaranwala and D. I. Khan are still using dialup. (Will the WiMax help any of this, I won't really bet on it looking at the pace of things getting under way?) The success of the internet (broadband, especially) in the US, Europe, Japan, etc. is not because they could access the best websites or web servers in the world with no problem, rather it was the easy access of <b>information and media developed and published locally</b> on their internet. The internet to the common man in Pakistan still doesn't make any sense because there is nothing spectacular in Urdu or any local language only. I do agree with most of what is said. Now that PTCL is in the BroadBand game it would indeed be funny to see PTA reducing tarriff per bandwidth consumed all over. Or subsidizing bandwidth for PTCL giving them unfair advantage over other rivals against which the industry should rise up eventually.

There is also a very grim need to do something about Pakistan’s intranet, not just the three or four major cities, but we need more gateways for smaller towns and cities connected with better medium and capacity. I hear people in Okara, Gujaranwala and D. I. Khan are still using dialup. (Will the WiMax help any of this, I won’t really bet on it looking at the pace of things getting under way?)

The success of the internet (broadband, especially) in the US, Europe, Japan, etc. is not because they could access the best websites or web servers in the world with no problem, rather it was the easy access of information and media developed and published locally on their internet. The internet to the common man in Pakistan still doesn’t make any sense because there is nothing spectacular in Urdu or any local language only.

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