Committed to PEOPLE'S RIGHT TO KNOW
Vol. 5 Num 1101 Fri. July 06, 2007  
   
Letters to Editor


Submarine cable "mystery"


For the past several years the internet using community of Bangladesh has been quite excited that Bangladesh is going to join, and as per press reports, has already joined the information superhighway. The connection to the submarine cable meant that internet speeds all over the country were supposed to increase by approximate 68 times.

However, we, the internet using community, have seen no such rise in speeds.

Talking with my own broadband providers, I came to learn that they are connected but are still doing tests on the submarine cable. I wonder what kind of testing takes more than one year, when the technology and the know-how already exists.

You should investigate the matter as to why the submarine cable bandwidth expansion has still not occurred.