TES provides specialized enterprise services of TWA to major enterprise customers of Pakistan. The services are designed to achieve optimum results for mission-critical applications like broadband connectivity, data transmission, voice operations and disaster recovery. However apart from its corporate operations, TES has started offering fiber to home services to residential customers however at this point in time a very limited area in Karachi is being covered with further progress planned in the near future.

It currently offers IP Transit, I-Connect/Domestic MPLS, Data Center services to customers at this point in time.

Company has said that its new visual identity presents TES as modern, evolving, growing and reflects the strength and direction of its brand portfolio. The blue color palette is fresh, vibrant and approachable, representing TES’s commitment to earn “customers for life.” The typeface, however is the same and not changed, presents a modern, clean look.

TES’s new tagline is “Connect. Communicate. Succeed. This tagline invites customers to engage with TES to open up greater opportunities for success with our broader technology and solutions portfolio.

“We’ve rebranded to better tell our story,” says Mr. Kamran Malik, CEO of TES. “Although the company’s identity has changed, TES commitment to its core values and to delivering exceptional value through remarkable service hasn’t changed. Our new identity is a symbol of this promise and just one of many exciting new developments to come.”

“It is a significant milestone”, he added, “But, we have even loftier goals for this year and beyond. We are thrilled about our enhanced brand identity and are looking forward to achieving even more growth and adding to our list of esteemed customers. This is an exciting time for our organization and for our clients.”

We hope that this fresh new vigor will help the company streamline its structure and offer the best of themselves and their services to their clients.

Khurram Zahid

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This, however, needs more clarification. Even though PTCL is offering high speed internet in the name of fiber to residential places, it is not the real fiber. In the name of fiber connection the residential places are provided internet through copper wires.

Fiber To The Home (FTTH) means fiber is actually provided directly at home not just to the exchange. No copper wire is involved anywhere in the PTCL internet connection. If you asked for fiber connection at your residence and PTCL broadband team has pulled a yellow wire into your place, it’s not fiber. Yellow wire indicates copper wire, and no fiber connection is complete without GPON device that is required for fiber connection.

Fiber wire, on the other hand, is of black color and it needs to be perfectly straight when pulled into your house. Which also means maintaining that straight posture indefinitely and to achieve that the PTCL team needs to dig up a line right up to your house. Other option is to pull fiber up on a pole and stretch it directly into your house. An inefficient way of providing fiber service but the only alternate to digging the road, cement, tiles etc.

And it’s not free either. If you want only the fiber to be pulled into your house, it would cost the customer about Rs. 6,000 (and charges would be even higher if digging is involved). We had reached out to a PTCL Fiber customer in DHA Phase 5 in Karachi who had the fiber pulled into the house via pole (no digging) and it took him long argument and persistence to make the PTCL team agree to do it.

This fact can also be verified from the fact that when supplying 4 mb fiber connection and 4 mb copper connection to residential homes, there is no price difference between the two. On the forum of PakGamers the discussion on PTCL Fiber yielded the same result, people were provided yellow copper wire in the name of fiber without additional cost.

PTCL is not the only company with fiber service though; others have also started this service such as Stormfiber and Fiberlink who are in soft launch phase while Transworld is also starting its operations in due time. Nayatel offers true fiber experience in Islamabad where they provide ONT device as well (similar to GPON) that completes the fiber connection.

Khurram Zahid

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