After successful trials of our pilot project in Faisalabad way back from 1993, TeleCard embarked upon implementing the Wireless Telephony for public calling in rural, suburban and urban areas in a joint venture with Pakistan Telecommunications Company Limited (PTCL).

From our successful pilot project and feasibility study on the technology to customize it to Pakistani needs, TeleCard launched the first commercial WLL service in Pakistan last year.

The inauguration of the WLL service was held in Karachi on 10th May 2002 where it was an instant winner. The service has now been expanded in other major cities of Sindh. The service rollout plan is expected to be completed in the next 9 months, ahead of schedule.

The WLL solution has been a success. TeleCard is proud of itself to bring this latest technology to Pakistan and aims to play a prominent role in bringing our nation up to speed with telecommunication development. We have experienced a huge growth in a short space of time testament to our commitment and a reward for our efforts.

The wireless technology will help TeleCard and PTCL to jointly provide phone service especially in the sub-urban and rural areas of Pakistan, where it is more difficult to deploy the traditional copper-wire telephone network. The agreement with PTCL is to provide a total of 125,000 lines in the country in a combination of urban, sub-urban and rural areas.

TeleCard WLL system utilizes the start-of-the-start CDMA technology. Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) is a radically new concept in wireless communications. It has gained widespread international acceptance by cellular radio system operators as an upgrade that will dramatically increase both their system capacity and the service quality.

TeleCard has customized the technology to run a prepaid wireless phone service. The CDMA technology selected for the WLL project will enable the consumer to not only benefit from basic voice telephony but also data transmission such as Internet and other wireless applications protocol in future.