Telecom

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Some 125 publicly-traded companies in the manufacturing and service sectors have expressed fears of heavy losses due to the ongoing coronavirus outbreak. Among them, 116 companies are in the manufacturing sector, such as RMG, cement, ceramics, engineering, and tannery sector. The other nine are in the real estate and service sector. These companies are...

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 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...

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...

Bangladesh’s mobile phone subscribers reached 176.94 million at the end of July 2021, according to the statistics of the country's telecom regulator. The number of mobile SIM users increased by 0.53 million in July compared with June this year, according to the data of...