Grameenphone retrenched 159 employees on Sunday after they refused to accept its voluntary retirement scheme (VRS).
One hundred employees left Grameenphone in 2020 when the carrier urged its redundant employees to leave the organisation under the scheme.
The operator revived the...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) yesterday called for expression of interest (EoI) to conduct financial and technical audits of Banglalink, its third attempt to do so. The audits on Banglalink, the third largest mobile carrier, would be run from its inception in 1996 until December 2019, according...