telecom
5 telcos, ISPs to use railway’s optical fibre; faster internet likely
Bangladesh Railway has leased out its spare optical fibre cables to five telecom and internet service providers for five years, a move which is expected to ensure faster internet speed for end users.
ISPAB rolls out service to keep data within country
The Internet Service Providers Association of Bangladesh (ISPAB) yesterday launched its National Internet Exchange (NIX) service in a bid to keep data within the country.
5 telcos, ISPs to use railway’s optical fibre; faster internet likely
Bangladesh Railway has leased out its spare optical fibre cables to five telecom and internet service providers for five years, a move which is expected to ensure faster internet speed for end users.
The real scenario of internet access
The present government has taken significant initiatives in setting the right vision and formulating policies and action plans for transforming the country into “Digital Bangladesh”. The focused government initiatives have resulted in an accelerated pace of growth of internet users, which in the last four years have more than doubled from 38 million (June 2014) to 88 million (June 2018). This is a tremendous achievement by any standard.
ZTE pleads guilty, settles US sanctions case for $900m
Chinese telecom equipment maker ZTE Corp has agreed to plead guilty and pay nearly $900 million in a US sanctions case.
Public hearing on Robi, Airtel merger Feb 17
The telecom regulator will arrange a public hearing on February 17 to take opinion of people before finalising its recommendations on the merger of Robi and Airtel.
Users must be compensated for call drops: Tarana
Mobile phone users will have to be compensated for every case of call drop and network failure, State Minister for Telecom Tarana Halim said yesterday.
‘Telecom operators will be forced to compensate call drops’
The country’s mobile phone operators will be forced to compensate their users for call drops, State Minister for Telecommunication Tarana Halim says
Joy asks for public hearing on Robi-Airtel merger
The prime minister's ICT affairs adviser has directed the telecom regulator to take opinion of the public before
Decision on lifting Facebook ban soon: Kamal
The government will soon decide to lift the ongoing ban on Facebook in the country, says Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal.
No untoward incident took place due to curbs on social media: Tarana
State Minister for Telecom Tarana Halim claims that no untoward incident took place in the country over the execution of two war criminals due to restrictions on the Facebook and other social networking sites.