Telecom

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...

In today's digital era, while we can certainly feel our growing reliance on telecom services, many of us are not fully aware of how indispensable they are for the sustenance of the life we are accustomed to living. The Covid-19 crisis has shown us the extent to...

Mobile operator Grameenphone (GP) yesterday sent a clarification to The Independent about a news report titled "GP willing to pay Tk 2000cr to meet BTRC audit claim" printed on January 17, 2020. The news report said the newly-appointed chief executive officer (CEO) of GP met the Bangladesh Telecommuni-cation Regulatory Commission (BTRC) chairman...

The government’s move to raise the mobile operators’ turnover tax to 2 percent from 0.75 percent from the new fiscal year will drive the smaller operators out of the industry, said Mahtab Uddin Ahmed, chief executive officer and managing director of Robi. In a group interview...

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...

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...

The meeting was presided over by the Prime Minister’s ICT Adviser Sajeeb Ahmed Wazed The government is set to appoint administrators to Grameenphone and Robi if the two mobile operators fail to make at least partial payment of the audit claims of BTRC within the deadline.  At...

The overwhelming clamour to secure a piece of Robi’s stock sale, which is the biggest ever in Bangladesh’s bourse’s history, is bound to leave one wondering what the fuss is all about. Its numbers, after all, pale in comparison to Grameenphone’s and it is only from last...

State-owned telecom company BTCL has taken a host of projects worth Tk 22,121 crore in a bid to ready itself for the upcoming 5G technology and at the same time reclaim its lost glory. “The government is very serious about the 5G mobile services, and this is...

Leading mobile phone operator Grameen-phone reported a healthy revenue growth of Tk 70.9 billion for the first half of 2019, a 10.6 percent growth from the same period of last year on the bank of new subscribers and internet users. In the same period, the operator’s subscriber...