Telecom & Computer Technology

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the ICT Division of the Government of Bangladesh recently reached an agreement to launch a cybersecurity campaign for the youth and children in selected Least Developed Countries (LDCs). Sudipto Mukerjee, Resident Representative of UNDP Bangladesh and Bikarna Kumar Ghosh, Managing Director of Bangladesh …

Mobile users in Bangladesh are set to avail data without expiry date and monthly limitless data, which will allow them to use internet to work, communicate, study, and find entertainment to their heart’s content. The Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) has directed the mobile phone operators to roll out two …

I might have mentioned before that there are some things that simply must be done and also can only be done by the government. These are the things that should, therefore, be done by the government. For these are the things that only the government can do and they also …

Bangladesh Submarine Cable Company will increase its planned investment to connect to a third submarine cable by 25 per cent to avail double the bandwidth. With Tk 870 crore, the company will now get 13,200 Gbps from the South East Asia–Middle East–Western Europe 6 (SEA-ME-WE 6) consortium. Currently the state-run …

The High Court on Monday accepted for further hearing of a petition filed seeking liquidation of Grameen Telecom, an organisation owned by Nobel laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus. However, the court rejected another portion of the petition filed seeking the recruitment of an administrator in Grameen Telecom. The High Court bench …

The Bangladesh Bank has once again renewed the interim licence of Nagad for another six months as the Bangladesh Post Office (BPO) is yet to form a subsidiary to run the mobile financial service. This is the fifth extension after the state-run agency secured provisional approval from the central bank …

Bangladesh has continued to witness a rise in the number of broadband connections with the severity of the pandemic waning remarkably while mobile operators have been losing internet subscribers in recent months. The number of mobile internet subscribers dropped 1.7 per cent month-on-month in January to 11.17 crore, according to …

The government is undertaking a Tk 1,059 crore project to develop an optical fibre transmission network with a view to building 5G infrastructure all over Bangladesh. It aims to raise the data transmission speed to 100 gigabits per second (Gbps) at upazila levels, according to a project proposal of the …

Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) is going to bring drastic changes in the International Long Distance Telecommunications Services (ILDTS) policy in a bid to introduce a unified licensing system for enhancing the quality of services at low costs, reducing the operating expenses and boosting the efficiency of operators. The telecom …

bKash has given the country’s burgeoning freelancer community reason to cheer as they can now receive payments through the mobile financial service (MFS) provider within a few seconds. bKash has already signed a deal with Payoneer, an online payment gateway service provider that allows users to send or receive payments …