July 1, 2020
First SMP restrictions come into effect after nine years
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.
June 30, 2020
Japan, the land of rising promise for Bangladesh’s ICT sector
Japan -- ever at the forefront of science and technology thanks to its culture of intensive mathematics education and reverence for engineers.
June 29, 2020
GP files petition challenging SMP restrictions
Grameenphone filed a writ petition before a High Court bench yesterday challenging a June 21 directive of Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) alongside two restrictions imposed under significant market power (SMP) guidelines.
June 29, 2020
Bourse braces for its biggest IPO yet
Robi is set to come up with the country’s biggest-ever initial public offering yet within a couple of months, in what can be viewed as finally some good news for the depressed bourse.
June 28, 2020
Govt may not hike SD on telecom services
Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal may scrap his plans to raise the supplementary duty (SD) on telecom services and double the deposit in VAT-related disputes following criticism and pleas from various quarters.
June 22, 2020
BTRC imposes two restrictions on GP
The telecom regulator has imposed two new restrictions on Grameenphone. The move comes 16 months after it declared the country’s leading mobile phone operator a significant market power (SMP).
June 18, 2020
March was mean for MFS providers
Given the need for social distancing and the push towards digital transactions to prevent the spread of the highly contagious coronavirus, one would have thought the mobile financial service sector would be having a bit of a purple patch.
June 14, 2020
Dream71 to develop video game for East Timor children
Local software giant Dream71 Bangladesh is set to develop two educational videogames for East Timor, a Southeast Asian nation situated in the Pacific, a development that can be viewed as yet another feather in the cap to the country’s budding ICT sector.
June 14, 2020
Mobile operators caught in the cross-fire over SD hike rollout
Mobile operators are in the most bewildering situation: they are caught in the middle of a misunderstanding in the interpretation of the law by the revenue authority and the telecom regulator.
June 13, 2020
Mobile Use Tax Hike: Users hurt, telcos irked
Telecom companies and other stakeholders of the industry yesterday slammed the spike in supplementary duty on mobile data usage, calls and any service that requires a SIM card.