Use of Intranet and Internet

Introduction:-
Use of the difference between intranet and internet and design your intranet and
your public website on the open internet are two different information spaces and
should have two different users interface designs. t is tempting to try to save
design resources by reusing a single design, but it is a bad idea to do so
because the two types of site differ along several dimensions:-
Users differ. ntranet users are your own employees who know a lot about
the company, its organizational structure and special terminology and
circumstances. Your internet site is used by customers who will know
much less about your company and also care less about it.
The tasks differ. The intranet is used for everyday work inside the
company, including some quite complex applications; the internet site is
mainly used to find out information about your products.
The type of information differs. The intranet will have many draft reports
project progress reports, human resource information and other detailed
information, whereas the internet site will have marketing information and
customer support information.
The amount of information differs. Typical, an internet has between ten
and a hundred times as many pages as the same company's public
website. The difference is due to the extensive amount of work in progress
that is documented on the intranet and the fact that many projects and
departments never publish anything publicly even though they have many
internal documents.
Bandwidth and cross platform needs differ. nternets often run between a
hundred and a thousand times faster than most internet users' Web
access which is tuck at low band or mid band, so it is feasible to use rich
graphics and even multimedia and other advanced content on intranet
pages. Also it is sometimes possible to control what computer and
software versions are supported on an intranet, meeting that designs need
to be less cross platform compatible (again allowing for more advanced
page content)
Most basically your intranet and your website are two different information
spaces. They should look different in order to let employees know when they are
on the internal net and when they have ventured out to the public site. Different
looks will emphasize the sense of place and thus facilitate navigation. Also
making the two information spaces feel different will facilitate an understanding of
when an employee is seeing information that can be freely shared with the
outside and when the information is internal and confidential.
An internet design should be much more task oriented and less promotional than
an internet design. A company should only have a single intranet design, so
users only have to learn it one. Therefore it is acceptable to use much larger
number of options and features on an internet since users will not fee intimidated
and overwhelmed as they would on the open internet where people more rapidly
between sites. An intranet will need a much stronger navigational system than an
internet site because it has to encompass a larger amount of information. n
particular, the internet will need a navigation system to facilitate movement
between servers, whereas a public website only needs to support within site
navigation.
anaging the Intranet
There are three ways of managing an intranet:-
1. A Single Tightly Managed Server: Only approved documents get posted
and the site has a single well structured information architecture and
navigation system under the control of a single designer. Even though this
approach maximizes usability of the information that passes the hurdles
and get posted, this is not the best way to build a corporate information
infrastruct5ure because the central choke point delays the spread of new
and useful information. A totalitarian intranet will cause you to miss too
many opportunities.
2. A ini Internet: Multiple servers are online but are not coordinated
complete chaos reigns, you have to use resource discovery methods like
spiders to find out what is one your own intranet, no consistent design
(everybody does their own pages), no information architecture. This
approach might seem to increase opportunities for communication across
the company, but in reality does not do so since people will be incapable of
finding most of the information in a anarchy.
3. anaged Diversity: Many servers are in use, but pages are designed
according to a single set of templates and interface standards; the entire
intranet follows a well planned (and usability tested) information
infrastructure that facilitates navigation. This is my preferred approach.

Managed diversity will probably characterize many aspects of the coming
network economy, but we have less experience with this approach than with
more traditional top down management. Just one example of improved usability
from taking advantage of managed diversity: an intranet search engine can take
advantage of weighted keywords to increase precision. Weights are impossible
on the open internet, since every site about wedgets will claim to have the
highest reasonably fairly and that they use, say, a controlled vocabulary correctly
to classify their pages.
What is an Intranet?
The simplest definition is that an intranet is the internet used inside an
organization and walled off from the rest of the internet community. nside an
intranet web site, one can find information about an organization that it might not
wish to make known to the public at large. An intranet can be used for just about
anything that you could and would put on line in your organization to share
information and collaborate across boundaries. That is a blessing and curse.
Some organizations have internal networks that carry the information they need.
They do not need an internet. Some organizations have many intranets set up by
units collaborating across the units but not across the organization. Their
intranets do not have standards. The kind of information presented and the way it
is presented is disorganized. Some organizations have joined units into a
coordinated intranet that allows easy access to information outside of unit
boundaries. Organizations that open their intranets to select groups outside of
the organization use a different name to characterize their intranets, they call
them extranets.
Why Use An Intranet?
A few reasons: The internet is built on a technology standard that everyone uses.
t is less expensive.
The tools to build an intranet are the same that you use to build a
Webpage.

An ntranet provides opportunities for multimedia ahtat internal corporate
networks often do not.

An intranet is available 24 hours day like any other network

The ability to hyperlink on an intranet provides fast information access that
other networks do not offer.

An intranet saves reproduction costs of paper based information, such as
employee handbooks, job posting, travel and expense reports. Are there
reasons not to use an intranet?

f you are single location operation of modest size and you are well served
by internal communications, there is no need for an intranet.

f you have an excellent proprietary network that delivers the information
you need, you don't need an intranet.

f you are an organization that does not need to coordinate of
communicate across unit boundaries you might not need an intranet.
How Does and ntranet fit with Public Relations?
ntranets complement or substitute most internal employee communications is
use. n intranet allows faster communication, wider distribution and greater
efficiency than many printed and electronic media. An intranet is one more
communications medium and tool that you can use to get your organization's
message out internally.
Who Uses An Intranet?
Anyone in organization with access to computer resources and the internet can
use an intranet. ncreasingly, that everybody. n reality, it is not some individuals
don't like to gto online. They ignore an intranet in favor of other media even if the
media are less efficient. f you put an in intranet, promote its use as much as you
would any other medium.
Culture, behavior and inertia enter into an individual's decision to use an intranet.
You will most likely encounter all three.
f you need rapid distribution of information and the intranet provides you with
access to most or all of your organization's individuals.
f the organization is using the intranet as a regular means of communication.
f an intranet provides you with opportunities for communicating that other media
do not such as interactive multimedia.
f it is less expensive to use an intranet over developing a more traditional
internal communication, such as a newsletter or corporate magazine.
f you need quick feedback from internal audiences.
f the top of your organization needs / wants to speak interactively with the
bottom of your organization no matter how dispersed it is geographically.

Internet

The internet is global network of interconnected computer, enabling users to
share information along multiple channels. Typically, a computer that connects to
the internet can access information from a vast array of available servers and
other computers by moving information from them to the computer's local
memory. The same connection allows that computer to send information to
servers on the network that information is in turn accessed and potentially
modified by a variety of othe interconnected computers. A majority of widely
accessible information on the internet consists of inter linked hypertext users
typically manage sent and received information with web browsers. Other
software for users' interface with computer networks includes specialized
programmes for electronic mail, online chat, file transfer and file sharing. The
movement of information in the internet is achieved via a system of
interconnected computer networks share data by packet switching using the
standaridized internet protocol suite (TCP/P). t is a network of networks that
consists of millions of private and public, academic, business and government
networks of local to global scope that are linked by copper wires, fibre optic
cables wireless connection sand other technologies.
TerminoIogy
The terms internet and world wide web are often used in every day speech
without much distinction. However the internet and WWW are not one and the
same. The internet is a global data communications system. t is a hardware and
software infrastructure that provides connectivity between computers. n contrast,
the web is one of the services communicated via the internet. t is a collection of
interconnected documents an dother resources, linked by hyperlinks and URLs.
Internet and the WorkpIace
The internet is allowing greater flexibility is working hours and locations,
especially with the spread of unmetered high speed connection and web
applications.
The Internet viewed on obiIe Devices
The internet can now be accessed virtually anywhere by numerous means.
Mobile phones, data-cards, handheld game consoles and cellular routers allow
users to connect to the nternet from anywhere there is a cellular network
supporting that device's technology. Within the limitations imposed by the small
screen and other limited facilities of such a pocket sized device, all the services
of the internet, including email and web browsing, may be available in this way.
Service providers may restrict the range of these services and charges for data
access may be significant, compared to home usage.
Common Uses
E-maiI:-
The concept of sending electronic text messages between parties in a way
analogous to mailing letters or memos predates the creation of the
internet. Even today it can be important to distinguish between internet and
internet email systems. nternet email may travel and be stored
unencrypted on may other networks and machines out of both the sender's
an the recipient's control. During this time it is quite possible for the content
to be read and even tampered with by third parties, if anyone considers it
important enough. Purely internal or intranet mail systems, where the
information never leaves the corporate or organization's network, are much
more secure, although in any organization there will be T and other
personnel whose job may involve monitoring and
Occasionally accessing, the email of other employees not addressed to
them. Today you can send pictures an dattach files on email. Most email
servers today also feature the ability to send email to multiple email
addresses.
The WorId Wide Web (WWW)
Many people use the terms internet and WW or just the web
interchangeably but as discussed above these two terms are not
synonymous. The WWW is a huge set of interlinked documents, images
and other resources, linked by hyperlinks and URLs. These hyperlinks and
URLs allow the web servers and other machines that store originals and
cached copies of these resources ot deliver them as required using HTTP
(Hypertext Transfer Protocol). HTTP is only one of the communication
protocols used on the internet.
Web services also use HTTP to allow software systems to communicate in
order to share and exchange business logic and data. Software products
that can access the resources of the web are correctly termed users
agents. n normal use, web browsers such as nternet Explorer, Firefox
and Apple Safari, access web pages and allow users to navigate from one
to another via hyperlinks. Web documents may contain almost any
combination of computer data including graphics, sounds, text, video,
multimedia and interactive content including games, office applications and
scientific demonstrations.
Through keyword driven internet research using search engines like Yahoo
and Google, millions of people worldwide have easy, instant access to a
vast and diverse amount of online information. Compared to encyclopedias
and traditional libraries, the world wide web has enabled a sudden and
extreme decentralization of information and data. Using the web it is also
easier than ever before for individuals and organizations to publish ideas
and information to an extremely large audience. Anyone can find ways to
publish a web page, a blog or build a website for very little initial cost.
Publishing and maintaining large, professional websites full of attractive,
diverse an dup to date information is still a difficult and expensive
proposition, however.
Many individuals and some companies and groups uses Web Longs or
blogs, which are largely used as easily updatable online diaries. Some
commercial organizations encourage staff to fill them with advice on their
areas of specialization in the hope that visitors will be impressed by the
expert knowledge and free information and be attracted to the corporate as
a result. One example of this practice is Microsoft, whose product
developers publish their personal blogs in order to pique the public's
interest in their work. Collections of personal web pages published by large
service providers remain popular and have become increasingly
sophisticated. Whereas operations such as Angelfire and GeoCities have
existed since the early days of the web, newer offerings from Facebook
and Myspace currently have large followings. These operations often
brand themselves as social network services rather than simply as web
pages hosts. Advertising on popular web pages can be lucrative, and e-
commerce or the sale of products and services directly via the web
continues to grow. n the early days web pages were usually created as
sets of complete and isolated HTML text files stored on a web server. More
recently, websites are more often created using content management or
wiki software with initially very little content. Contributors to these systems
who may be paid staff, members of a club or other organizations or
members of the public fill underlying databases with content using editing
pages designed for that purpose, while casual visitors view and read this
content in its final HTML form. There may or may not be editorial, approval
and security systems build into the process of taking newly entered content
and making it available to the target visitors.
#emote Access
The internet allows computer users to connect to other computers and
information stores easily, wherever they may be across the world. They
may do this with or without the use of security, authentication and
encryption technologies, depdnding on the requirements. This is
encouraging new ways of working from home, collaboration and
information sharing in many industries. An accountant sitting at home can
audit the bokks of a company based in another country, on a server
situated in a third country that is remotely maintained by T specialists in a
fourth. These accounts could have been created by home working
bookkeepers, on other remote locations, based on information e-mailed ot
them from offices at over the world. Some of these thngs were possible
before the widespread useof the internet, but the cost of private leased
lines would have made many of them infeasible in practice. An office
worker away from his desk, perhaps on the other side of the world on a
business trip or a holiday, can open a remote desktop session into his
normal office PC using secure Virtual Private Network (VPN) connections
via the internet. This gives the worker complete access to all of this or her
normal files and data, including e-mail and other application, while away
from the office. This concept is also referred to by some network security
people as the VPN, because it extends the secure perimeter of a corporate
network into its employees' homes.
CoIIaboration
The low cost and nearly instantaneous sharing of ideas, knowledge and
skills has made collaborative work dramatically easier. Not only can a
group cheaply communicate and share ideas, but the wide reach of the
internet allows such groups to easily form in the first place. An example of
this is the free software movement, which has produced Linux, Mozilla
Firefox and Open Office.Org etc.
FiIe Sharing
A computer file can be e-mailed to customers, colleagues and friends as
an attachment. t can be uploaded to a website of FTP server for easy
download by other. t can be put into a "shared location or onto a file
server for instant use by colleagues. The load of bulk downloads to many
users can be eased by the use of Mirror servers or peer to peer networks.
n any of these cases, access to the file may be controlled by user
authentication, the transit of the file over the internet may be obscured by
encryption and money may change hands for access to the file. The price
can be paid by the remote charging of funds from, for example a credit
card whose details are also passed-hopefully fully encrypted-across the
internet. The origin and authenticity of the file received may be checked by
digital signatures or by MD5 or other message digests.
These simple features of the internet over a worldwide basis are changing
the production, sale and distribution of anything that can be reduced to a
computer file for transmission. This includes all manner of print
publications, software products, news, music, film, videos, photography,
graphics and other arts. This in turn has caused seismic shifts in each of
the existing industries that previously controlled the production and
distribution of these products.
SociaI Impact
The internet has made possible entirely new forms of social interaction,
activities and organizing thanks to its basic features such as widespread
usability and access. Social networking websites such as Facebook and
MySpace have created a new form of socialization and interaction. Users
of these sites are able to add a wide variety of items to their personal
pages to indicate common interests and to connect with others. t is also
possible to find a large circle of existing acquaintances, especially if a site
allows users to utilize their real names, and to allow communication among
large existing groups of people. Sites like meetup.com exist to allow wider
announcement of groups which may exist mainly for face to face meetings,
but which may have a variety of minor interactions over the group's site at
meetup.org or other similar sites.
!oIiticaI Organization and Censorship
n democratic societies, the internet has achieved new relevance as a
political tool. The presidential campaign of Howard Dean in 2004 in the
USA became famous of its ability ot generate donations via the internet.
Many political groups use the internet to achieve a whole new method of
organizing in order to carry out internet activis. Some governments such as
those of ran, North Korea, Myanmar, the People's Republic of China and
Saudi Arabia, restrict what people in their countries can access on the
internet, especially political and religious content. This is accomplished
through software that filters domains and content so that they may not be
easily accessed or obtained without elaborate circumvention.
Many use the internet to access download music, movies and other works
for their enjoyment and relaxation. As discussed above, there are paid and
unpaid sources for all of these, using centralized servers and distributed
peer to peer technologies. Some of these sources take more care over the
original artists' rights and over copyrights laws than others. Many use the
WWW to access news, weather and sports reports to plan and book
holidays and to find out more about their random ideas and casual
interests. People use chat, messaging and e-mail to make and stay in
touch with friends worldwide, sometimes in the same way as some
previously had pen pals. Social networking websites like MySpace,
Facebook and many others like them also put and keep people in contact
for ther enjoyment. The internet has seen a growing number of Web
desktops, where users can access their files, folders and settings via the
internet.
arketing
The internet has also become a large market for companies; some of the
biggest companies today have grown by taking advantage of the efficient
nature of low cost advertising and commerce through the internet, also
known as e-commerce. t is the fastest way to spread information to a vast
number of people simultaneously. The internet has also subsequently
revolutionized shopping for example' a person can order a CD online and
receive it in the mail within a couple of days, or download it directly in
some cases. The internet has also greatly facilitate personalized marketing
which allows a company to market a products to specific person or a
specific group of people more so than any other advertising medium.

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Introduction
PTCL is the largest telecommunications provider in Pakistan. PTCL also
continues to be the largest CDMA operator in the country with 0.8 million V-fone
customers.

The company maintains a leading position in Pakistan as an infrastructure
provider to other telecom operators and corporate customers of the country. t
has the potential to be an instrumental agent in Pakistan's economic growth.
PTCL has laid an Optical Fibre Access Network in the major metropolitan centres
of Pakistan and local loop services have started to be modernized and upgraded
from copper to an optical network.

On the Long Distance and nternational infrastructure side, the capacity of two
SEA-ME-WE submarine cable is being expanded to meet the increasing demand
of nternational traffic.

Vision

To be the leading nformation and Communication Technology Service Provider
in the region by achieving customer satisfaction and maximizing shareholders'
value'.
The future is unfolding around us. n times to come, we will be the link that allows
global communication. We are striving towards mobilizing the world for the future.
By becoming partners in innovation, we are ready to shape a future that offers
telecom services that bring us closer.

ission
To achieve our vision by having:
O An organizational environment that fosters professionalism, motivation and
quality
O An environment that is cost effective and quality conscious
O Services that are based on the most optimum technology
O "Quality" and "Time" conscious customer service
O Sustained growth in earnings and profitability

Core VaIues
O Professional ntegrity
O Customer Satisfaction
O Teamwork
O Company Loyalty

Company !rofiIe
PTCL is all set to redefine the established boundaries of the telecommunication
market and is shifting the productivity frontier to new heights. Today, for millions
of people, we demand instant access to new products and ideas. More
importantly we want them for their better living standards with increased values in
this ever-shrinking globe of ours. We are setting free the spirit of innovation.
PTCL is going to be your first choice in the future as well, just as it has been over
the past six decades.

Business & Corporate Users:
For clear communication the first choice of business circles is PTCL telephone
for local, nationwide and international calling. Today businesses can have 10-100
lines with modern day services to meet their needs. Now you get options like
Caller-D, call-forwarding, call-waiting, Call Barring, to name a few.

Other business specific services incIude:
0800-Toll free number, 0900-Preminum rate services, VPN-Virtual Private
Network, Audio Conference Service, Digital Cross Connect (DXX), SDN (Policy),
Teleplus(SDN/BR), Digital Phone Facilities/ Modification Charges, UAN, UN.

Nationwide Infrastructure:
We have the largest Copper infrastructure spread over every city, town and
village of Pakistan with over million installed lines.
The network has over 0.5 million POTS ports with more than 250,000 Broadband
ports in 13 major cities.

NationaI Long-hauI Core Network:
We have over 10,400 km fully redundant, fiber optics DWDM backbone network.
t connects over 840 cities and towns with 270G bandwidth.

Carriers Services
As carriers-carrier, we provide the core infrastructure services to the cellular,
LDs, Local Loop operators, SPs, Call Centers and payphone operators.

We provide all carrier services, right from inter-connects and telehousing to
DPLC and PLC connectivity. Our interconnect services are provided from our
3200 exchange locations that connect your carriers networks domestically, in
addition to providing PLC bandwidths to connect you internationally through our
four international gateways and SEA-ME-WE3 and SEA-ME-WE4 international
submarine, also MWE submarine cable will be added by the end of the year.

Furthermore to provide connectivity to operators in the extreme remote areas of
the country, PTCL launched its state of the art satellite service (Skylink).
PTCL satellite service (Skylink) is provided using the ntelsat Satellite System, an
undisputed leader in satellite communications.

White LabeI Services:
PTCL customers can now provide uninterrupted services to their clients without
undertaking large scale investment in infrastructure or developing expertise in
their own network.
PTCL White Label Services are focused on speed and simplicity at minimal
capex. This will enable our customer to offer their own branded WLL, DSL etc to
customers nationally, together with an array of key support services.

Broadband !akistan:
PTCL Broadband is the largest and the fastest growing Broadband service in
Pakistan. n less than two years of it launch, PTCL has acquired over 150,000
Broadband customers in over 150 cities and towns across Pakistan, leading the
proliferation and awareness of Broadband services across Pakistan.
With its entry in this market segment, PTCL opened up a broadband culture in
Pakistan, where till a couple of years back there was very little awareness in the
country about broadband & high speed internet services. PTCL made the
broadband technology affordable by lowering the barriers to entry, by
geographically bringing the service within the reach of a common user across
Pakistan and by continuous improvements in customer care for the service.
Unique offers that makes PTCL's Broadband unmatchable are special packages
for the student segment, FREE modem and installation, FREE dial up service for
its Broadband customers and FREE access to movies, music, classical Pakistani
dramas, cricket matches, gaming, educational and religious content on PTCL's
entertainment portal 'BUZZ', (made exclusive only to PTCL Broadband
subscribers). PTCL also offers multiple FREE personalized e-mail accounts
exclusively to its broadband users. n addition, PTCL recently doubled its
broadband speed for all its existing and new customers at the same price,
making 1 MB as its minimum offered speed.
For a connection you simply dial 0800 8 0800 or visit www.ptcl.com.pk

I!TV Service (Smart TV):
Using its state of the art Broadband network, PTCL entered the media sector on
14th August 2008, by launching a digital interactive television service for the first
time in Pakistan. Employing the PTV (nternet Protocol TV) technology, PTCL
brought Pakistan in the list of a few countries across the globe that offer this state
of the art interactive TV service to its subscribers.
Branded under 'PTCL Smart Line', the service includes nteractive Television,
Broadband and voice telephony all at the same time on PTCL's telephone line.
Besides offering the highest digital quality TV picture, the most revolutionary
section of this offering is the ability to 'rewind' and 'pause' live TV channels, the
ability to block / unblock any TV channel for parental lock and the ability to
search through video on demand content. Currently PTCL Smart TV offers its
viewers over hundred live channels and over 350 local and international Movie
titles 'on Demand'. The service for now is available in four cities Karachi, Lahore
and Rawalpindi slamabad however is planned to be expanded to all the major
cities and towns across Pakistan during the year 2009.

!ak Internet Exchange:

t is the only P enabled network with 40 (number increase) point-of-presences
(POP) in 26 cities. The existing 16G active bandwidth is used for internet, data,
video and video-conferencing services and for voice of LD. All PTCL Broadband
users, narrow band users, corporates, mobile operators, and SP are connected
to this network.

V-fone:

PTCL also continues to be the largest CDMA operator in the country with
approximately 1.25 million V-fone customers.
t offers fixed wireless telephone for your homes & business. With CDMA2000 1X
technology, ours is the largest WLL network with a capacity of 2.6M, covering
over 10,000 urban & rural areas. The network is already enabled for Voice,
Dialup-nternet access (153.6kbps) and EVDO Broadband.
V-fone can be bought from our franchises or by dialing 1236 and it will be
delivered within 48-72 hours.

InternationaI Network

SEAEWE-3 Submarine CabIe System:
PTCL is a member of SEAMEWE 3 Cable Consortium with its Cable Landing
Station at Karachi. SMW-3 cable connects 39 cable landing stations in 33
countries and four continents. SMW-3 is the longest system of the world with a
total length of 39,000 Km.

SW-4 Submarine CabIe System:

SMW-4 is a relatively new submarine cable system (inaugurated in December
2005) and links 14 countries with 16 landing stations across Europe, Middle East
and Asia. The system is using Terabit DWDM technology to achieve. The link
between any two destinations is STM-1. SMW-4 is designed for relatively higher
traffic volumes.

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MEWE Submarine Cable is a Tera bit capacity submarine cable system
connecting ndia to Western Europe through Middle East. The Cable system is
13,000 km long with 10 landing points in 8 countries.

SateIIite Communication:

PTCL has ntelsat Standard Earth Stations near Karachi and slamabad. These
installations provide the diversity for nternational voice connectivity and also
work as Hub for domestic satellite users. There are four ntelsat Standard B
Earth Stations at slamabad, Gilgit, Skardu and Gwadar.

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Uses of Intranet in !TCL:-

Being a communication organization PTCL is using ntranet intensively and
having lot of benefits of this technology in the every department of the
organization. The main uses of ntranet in PTCL are as below:-


CentraI FiIe Sharing:

At present, file sharing is used in PTCL by distributing or providing access to
digitally stored information, such as computer programs, multi-media (audio,
video), documents, or electronic books. t is implemented in a variety of storage,
transmission, and distribution models.

FiIe anagement System:

E-file management system is used in PTCL which is interface to work with e-files.
The most common operations used are create, open, edit, view, print, copy, and
permissions. Files are typically displayed in a hierarchy. Physical file system is
eliminating day by day in PTCL and trends are changing towards this new facility
of intranet which provide quick decision making and early implementation of
management decision.

e-maiI:
www.ptcl.net.pk is the PTCL official website which is for the use of PTCL
employees only and official email Ds for example xyz@ptcl.net.pk have been
created for almost all PTCL employees to send / receive emails within the
organization as well as outside the company. PTCL is using Outlook Express for
its official email system.

Information Sharing regarding New !roducts:
t is also a trend and policy of PTCL that before launch of any new product,
marketing department issue an e-mail to PTCL employees which consists of all
of the information e.g. features, prices, regarding new products, so that all PTCL
family can be well informed about the new products in advance.
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t is web based software in which many portals are working at a time and
authorized PTCL employees can access to these different portals (HR, Finance,
Admn, Maintenance, Procurement etc.). User name and passwards are allotted
to the specific PTCL employees to work on these portals. This also an example
of intranet in PTCL.

Uses of Internet in !TCL:-

The main uses of nternet in PTCL are as below:-

e-maiI:
www.ptcl.net.pk is the PTCL official website which is for the use of PTCL
employees only and official email Ds for example xyz@ptcl.net.pk have been
created for almost all PTCL employees to send / receive emails within the
organization as well as outside the company. PTCL is using Outlook Express for
its official email system.

!TCL Website:

PTCL has another website for public namely www.ptcl.com.pk. At this website
public can have many kind of information regarding PTCL services. Different
packages of PTCL are also available on this site. UFone which is a subsidiary of
PTCL has also its own website namely www.ufone.com which also contains all
the information about Ufone.

arketing:


The above mentioned screen shots contains the PTCL adds on different
websites which proves that PTCL is using internet as a marketing tool. PTCL's
mostly target customers have internet accessibility and they visit different website
during browsing on website. To keep inform these existed customer about its
new products and also for the knowledge of new clients, PTCL is using internet
for its marketing and having lot of benefit from this action.

Advantages
Workforce productivity
Time Saving
nformation Based
Cost- Effective
Promote common corporate culture
Enhance Collaboration

Disadvantages
t stops having contact between two people would be necessary that the two
were connected at the same time even without speaking on telephone.
Workers are sitting a lot of hours in front of computers and the lack of
diverse physical exercises cause problems, with the increase of the
weight levels that finish resulting in the problems it heart.