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Compare the print on the two coils before you compare the two brand names.
Building cable carries its own specification along the sheath: the maker, the conductor metal, the cores and cross-section, the voltage rating, the standard it is claimed against, and the metre marks. Those six fields decide whether two quotes are even for the same cable. Fast Cables and Pilone are both Pakistani manufacturers, and we hold no test data on anyone else's coil, so we will not rank one against the other. What we can do is show you what to read on either one.
Pull a metre of cable out of each coil and turn it until the printing faces you. Everything a buyer can check without a laboratory is in that line of text.
| Field | What it looks like | What it settles |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | Brand name or trademark | Who answers if the coil is wrong. Unmarked cable has nobody. |
| Conductor metal | CU / AL | Copper or aluminium. The same mm² in the two metals is not the same cable. |
| Cores and size | 2×2.5 mm², 3×4 mm² | Current capacity is read off this and nothing else. |
| Voltage rating | 450/750 V, 300/500 V | 450/750 V is fixed wiring; 300/500 V is a light cord. |
| Standard | IEC 60227, IEC 60228 | Which document the insulation and the conductor are claimed against. |
| Metre marks | Sequential numbers | Whether the coil holds the metres you were charged for. |
A 2.5 mm² copper conductor is rated 27 A and a 4 mm² conductor 36 A, with two loaded cores, clipped direct at 30°C ambient in PVC — BS 7671 reference method C. Those figures come from the cross-section, not from the name on the jacket, so no brand choice moves them and no brand choice rescues a size that is too small for the circuit. Get the size right first; the brand argument is the smaller of the two.
The complication in Pakistan is that shops quote strand codes, not areas. 7/.029 — seven strands of 0.029 inch — works out at about 3.0 mm² and is sold as 2.5 to 3 mm²; 7/.036 works out at about 4.6 mm² and is sold as 4 mm². Ask for both the code and the mm² so the two quotes describe the same conductor. The full decoder, with the arithmetic, is in the 2.5mm vs 4mm cable guide.
Once the specification matches, what is left is the route the cable took to reach you. Copper cable is priced off the day's copper rate everywhere; a counter price also carries the counter. Pilone draws its own cable in Lahore and quotes the factory rate straight to the buyer, with roots in the copper trade going back to 1992 and the cable line running since about 2020. Because the rate moves with copper, we confirm the day's figure on WhatsApp instead of printing one that goes stale. Delivery is 1–2 days across Punjab and 2–4 days to the rest of Pakistan.
Ask any supplier the same five things, ours included: conductor class, actual cross-section, voltage rating, metres in a coil, and whether the price is the factory rate or a resale rate. The wider supplier checklist is on how to choose a cable company in Pakistan.
Send the cores, size and metres you need and we'll quote today's factory rate from Lahore — the same specification, so the two numbers can be compared.