Telecom

edotco Bangladesh, an integrated telecommunications infrastructure services company, deployed the country's first ever street furniture in collaboration with the Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC). The new Smart City solution is the result of a recently signed Public Private Partnership (PPP) to develop Smart City Features on a pilot...

Robi plans to submit its application for listing in the country's twin bourses to the Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission in the middle of next month, as the long-awaited debut of the second largest mobile phone operator is finally taking shape. The operator, which got the approval...

Today will be the first time a restriction will come into effect on Grameenphone since the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) started working on Significant Market Power (SMP) guidelines nine years back to enhance competition and bring balance to the market. A mobile network operator can be...

The National Board of Revenue is going to introduce a new system online from September 1 and taxpayers would be able to submit their income tax returns from mobile phones through this platform. The taxpayers would be able to submit their tax returns for...

Grameenphone’s market share edged up about two percentage points over the past decade, thanks to huge investment in network expansion that gave the mobile operator leverage to almost double its revenue. The company has started the new decade with a 46.18 per cent share of total customers...

In the digital age, Bangladesh's mobile telecom market is still dominated by the second generation (2G) services while scenarios in other Asia Pacific countries are quite different and are predominated by 4G services, according to a GSMA report published on Monday. The 2G technology is the mobile...

The telecommunication industry’s revenue will grow by 34 percent in the next five years to $5.08 billion from $3.8 billion at present, on the back of expanding user base and wide range of services, said the USAID in a new study. “The sector is quite large in size...

The mobile industry's combined investment fell 19 per cent year-on-year to Tk 3,695.72 crore in 2019, the lowest in recent years, as the regulatory regime continues to spook the foreign owners of the top three carriers. Mobile carriers are not investing adequately into their network, a development...

The overall service quality of mobile phone operators worsened last year compared to the previous years, the telecom regulator said yesterday, blaming the carriers’ poor performance and unwillingness to buy sufficient spectrum due to higher prices. “It is true that call drop has increased and data speed...

Ericsson’s latest Mobility Report projects that 5G mobile subscriptions will exceed 580 million by the end of 2021, driven by an estimated one million new 5G mobile subscriptions every day.  This commercial 5G momentum is expected to become the fastest adopted mobile generation, spurred...