Bandwidth export to India from Dec 1
Bangladesh Submarine Cable Company will start exporting bandwidth -- 10 gigabits per second -- to India's northeastern state of Tripura on December 1, in line with a deal signed with Bharat Sanchar Nigam of India.
“Connectivity has already been established and we began test transmissions on Friday,” said Monwar Hossain, managing director of Bangladesh Submarine Cable.
The two sides signed the bandwidth export deal on June 5, during Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Bangladesh.
Bangladesh Submarine Cable will export bandwidth at $10 per Mbps and earn $1.2 million or Tk 9.6 crore a year, Hossain said, adding that payments will be made on a quarterly basis.
On November 16, state-owned Bangladesh Telecommunications Company set up connectivity for bandwidth transmissions with Tripura's capital Agartala.
India may take 40 Gbps of bandwidth in the next six months, which may rise further to 100 Gbps with the establishment of connection between Bangladesh and the second submarine consortium by 2016, Hossain had said earlier.
Bangladesh has a bandwidth capacity of 200 Gbps, of which only 43 Gbps is currently being used. Bandwidth use within the country will also increase shortly, by around 40 Gbps, as demand is on the rise, Hossain said.
Also, Bangladesh Submarine Cable is working on plans to export bandwidth to Nepal and Bhutan.
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