Abu Saeed Khan

The fallacious policy on exporting internet to India

Once approved, this will forever strengthen India’s grip on monopolising regional international internet bandwidth.

a2i Act: Gateway to kleptocracy and highway to oligarchy

The Agency to Innovate (a2i) bill was hurriedly passed on July 5

Flawed regulation sends wrong signals to private submarine cables in Bangladesh

The government has issued three submarine cable licenses to Summit Communications, CdNet Communications and Metacore Subcom Ltd. Last bastion of state-owned monopoly in telecoms will fall once the private cables emerge from the Bay of Bengal.

No bank fees, please: Central Bank Digital Currency will deliver remittances like emails

Cross-border payments are inefficient, often slow, opaque and expensive. Worldwide businesses did $23.5 trillion cross-border transactions in 2020, which is equivalent to 25 per cent of global GDP. The businesses have also paid bank fees of $120 billion (excluding foreign exchange conversion costs), which amounts to Singapore’s one-third of GDP, said a recent J.P. Morgan analysis.

No bank fees, please: Central Bank Digital Currency will deliver remittance like emails

Cross-border payments are inefficient, often slow, opaque and expensive. Worldwide businesses did $23.5 trillion cross-border transactions in 2020, which is equivalent to 25 per cent of global GDP.

Recovering funds should be top priority

An important job was pending, and “Everybody” thought “Somebody” would do that. “Anybody” could have done it, but “Nobody” did it.

BSEC and Nagad: Zero intolerance of noncompliance for zero-coupon bond

Regulators are like football referees. The latter runs along the ball, as much as he can, across the field and instantly intervenes upon foul play. Players’ stardom or the team’s elite profile is immaterial to him.

Revisit corporate tax hike for MFS

Bridges over the mighty rivers have seamlessly connected Bangladesh, the naturally fragmented largest delta in the world. It has prompted the rapid buildout of highways and roads networks to accelerate the nationwide movement of passengers and goods.

February 27, 2021
February 27, 2021

Mobile money (dis)order of Bangladesh Post Office

Entities under the Ministry of Posts, Telecommunications and Information Technology are reputed for flouting the law.

May 17, 2020
May 17, 2020

Broadband landscaping in post-Covid-19 Bangladesh

Internet is keeping the world somewhat walking in the darkest hours of the Covid-19 pandemic. And mobile telephony is the tool that is keeping Bangladesh limping.

April 2, 2020
April 2, 2020

Big data in the coronavirus battle plan

Coronavirus (the virus causing the disease Covid-19) has two universal problems: no vaccine or drug has been developed as yet, and the diagnostic tools are scarce.

June 18, 2019
June 18, 2019

Making Bangladesh a regional internet hub

Bangladesh simultaneously exports and imports international internet bandwidth to and from the same country – India. Such unique-in-the world bandwidth trading started with import when Bangladesh was linked with the single submarine cable:

May 12, 2016
May 12, 2016

Cox's Bazar: India's third internet gateway

Bangladesh simultaneously exports and imports internet bandwidth to and from India. Its geographic location and state of international connectivity have contributed to this interesting scenario.

July 26, 2015
July 26, 2015

Takeaway for Tarana as new state minister

Tarana Halim is the new state minister for posts and telecommunications division under the posts, telecommunications and

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