{"id":103737,"date":"2021-12-02T09:00:10","date_gmt":"2021-12-02T03:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/data-flair.training\/blogs\/?p=103737"},"modified":"2021-12-02T10:04:58","modified_gmt":"2021-12-02T04:34:58","slug":"full-form-of-pco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/data-flair.training\/blogs\/full-form-of-pco\/","title":{"rendered":"Full Form of PCO – Public Call Office"},"content":{"rendered":"

PCO stands for the Public Call Office. In India and Pakistan, a public call office (PCO) is a telephone facility placed in a public area. In the UK, it’s also referred to as a public telephone box (postal addresses for these kiosks sometimes include “PCO”).<\/span><\/p>\n

History of PCO<\/h3>\n

There are coin-operated payphones as well as staffed payphones in India. The largest PCO installation in India is at BSNL, a government-owned company. Introducing the concept of PCOs to India was done by a Department of Telecom officer by the name of Mr. R L Dube. According to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India, India has around 4.2 million (42 lakh) PCOs active by the end of 2006. (TRAI).<\/span><\/p>\n

Private sector operators like Reliance Infocomm, Tata Indicom, Hutch, Idea, and Airtel mostly supply prepaid PCOs and have a moderate number of PCOs in the public environment.<\/span><\/p>\n

PCOs, come in two major forms: wired and wireless. Both CDMA and GSM are used by wireless PCOs. Prepaid PCO connections are available from Reliance and Tata Indicom through CDMA. Prepaid PCO connections are available from Airtel, Idea, and Hutch through GSM.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Initially, fixed landline postpaid PCO connections were offered by the Department of Telecom, followed by BSNL, MTNL, and Airtel. Prepaid PCOs are also offered by BSNL and MTNL.<\/span><\/p>\n

PICoF – Public Internet Caf\u00e9 on Fiber \u2013 What is it?<\/h3>\n

The Bhopal Unit of India’s largest public-sector telecom provider, BSNL, has opened India’s first optical fiber Internet caf\u00e9. A public Internet caf\u00e9 on fiber was inaugurated on August 18 in Bhopal’s Neelbad locality by BSNL’s MP Unit General Manager Mr. N. K. Yadav and Bhopal Unit General Manager Mr. Mahesh Shukla, who had previously run an internet caf\u00e9 using a broadband connection provided by copper lines in Mr. Deepak Verma’s shop.<\/span><\/p>\n

Description of PCO<\/h3>\n

A public call office telephone meter is being offered by a 1974-established Indian research center. ASIC design, audio\/video technology, and hardware-software realization are some of the areas of control and instrumentation that this company works in. The center would like to make the above-mentioned technologies available to companies.<\/span><\/p>\n

For ease of use, it has a menu-driven operating system and a printer with an alphanumeric keypad and 24-column layout.<\/span><\/p>\n

Characteristics of PCO<\/h3>\n