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‘Illegally imported cell phones won’t function in Bangladesh’
Cell phone sets with fake International Mobile Equipment Identity (IMEI) numbers will be unable to use Bangladesh’s mobile network.
Ex-mobile phone industry executive gets five years for text message scam
A former mobile phone industry executive is sentenced to five years in prison after he is found guilty of defrauding cellphone customers by charging them millions of dollars for unwanted text messages.
Theft of Phone Data: 2 fraudsters detained
Beware when you are handing your mobile phone to a technician for servicing. Fraudsters might clone your IMO messaging account, follow your private chat sessions and blackmail you for money.
SP’s wife received no SMS: CMP
Mahmuda Khanam Mitu, the slain wife of Superintendent of Police Babul Akter, did not receive any text message on her mobile phone that asked her son to be at school half an hour earlier than usual due to assembly, police say.
Mobile phone use to get costlier
Cost for mobile phone use will increase in the next fiscal as Finance Minister AMA Muhith proposed to hike the duty on SIM card-related services to 5 percent.
‘SIM re-registration by April 30 tough’
It will be tough to complete re-registration of all the SIM cards by April 30, leaders of a fraction of mobile phone top-up and banking vendors association say.
HC questions legality of biometric SIM registration
The High Court has questioned the legality of biometric registration for purchase of mobile operators’ Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) cards.
Allegation of Theft / 2 kids tortured inhumanly
In yet another incident of cruelty against kids, two teen boys were tortured badly in Rajshahi over a flimsy claim that they may have stolen a mobile phone.
49pc children encounter cyber bullying
Around half of the school-goers in the country have encountered cyberbullying, global mobile phone giant Telenor yesterday said.
Kim Kardashian’s selfie pose to feature at Madame Tussauds
Reality TV star Kim Kardashian’s famous selfie pose will be immortalised at Madame Tussauds London.
Call charges to rise
Moblie phone call expense and SIM cards will get costlier with the duty proposed by Finance Minister AMA Muhith in the budget for 2015-16 fiscal.
Myanmar scraps proposed 5 pct tax on phone cards as telecoms boom
Myanmar scraps proposed 5 percent tax on mobile phone top-up cards after lawmakers voted against the levy, the state-owned Global New Light of Myanmar newspaper said on Thursday.
Another woman raped in Delhi taxi, driver arrested
A 32-year-old woman was beaten up and sexually assaulted by a cabbie inside a black-and-yellow taxi in Dwarka, Delhi on Thursday night.
Cabinet okays 1pc surcharge on mobile phone use
The cabinet approves a new law to introduce 1 percent surcharge on mobile phone use, cabinet secretary says. The government will earn Tk 140cr each year when the law will become effective.
Alibaba ploughs $200 m into Snapchat in latest startup deal: source
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (BABA.N) is investing $200 million in photo-messaging app Snapchat, a source familiar with the deal said, striking its latest Silicon Valley deal as the Chinese e-commerce company builds up mobile services.
