Callmate TELIPS Telecom Ltd. is a public limited company listed at the Karachi Stock Exchange and is the pioneer in the Payphones and Prepaid Calling Card industries in Pakistan . CT Telecom was formed subsequent to the merger between CallTel (Private) Limited and Telefon International Project Services (Private) Limited (TELIPS) on 11 th November 2003.

TELIPS was established on November 21, 1991 in Karachi to install and operate Card Payphones under the license agreement with the Government of Pakistan. TELIPS is the pioneer of the card payphones sector in Pakistan , with 13 years of operations in the industry. CallTel (Pvt.) Ltd. was formed in 1999 with an aim of providing Pre-Paid Calling Card Facilities. Its own extensive distribution network consisting of staff strength of more than 600, spreads across 31 branch set ups in Pakistan . Callmate Calling Card is the market leader among all private calling card operators.

In the recent de-regulation of the Telecom Industry, CT Telecom became the first Long Distance and International (LDI) Operator in Pakistan 's history, enabling it to terminate and originate traffic for long distance with the new cost effective LDI platform. The formal award of the license took place on 12 th of July 2004, when the Company was issued the first ever LDI License, thus bringing an end to the telecom monopoly in Pakistan.

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