BTRC postpones public hearing scheduled for Mar 30
The telecom regulator has suspended its March 30 public hearing on the quality of telecommunication services because of the coronavirus outbreak, which has brought normal lives to a standstill.
The Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) took the decision at a meeting yesterday, said Md Zakir Hossain Khan, a senior assistant director of the regulator.
The new date will be announced after the situation returns to normalcy, he said.
The commission had decided to host the event to learn directly from the users about the quality of telecom services and their perception about the BTRC.
Accordingly, it completed the registration procedure of the interested customers online on March 17. A few hundred applications were received by the BTRC.
Besides, senior executives from mobile operators and representatives of some other operators as well as different stakeholders were scheduled to attend.
This was the third public hearing on telecom services. The last two hearings were in June last year and November 2016.
Last year, 202 customers registered online and 165 got invitations from the BTRC to take part.
It had received 1,319 queries, recommendations and comments online from customers as well and has addressed 25 of them recently.
At the inaugural public hearing, 1,050 customers had registered and the commission invited 420 people.
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