Muhammad Zahidul Islam

The telecom regulator is set to issue two separate show cause notices to Grameenphone and Robi asking them to reply within 30 days why their licences will not be cancelled despite violating the licensing conditions by not paying the telecom regulator’s ‘dues’.

Online sales of sacrificial cows have been met with a setback this year for floods in northern parts of the country and the dengue

The government has decided to take a billion-dollar loan from Korean company LG U+ for expanding Teletalk’s network coverage and making the state-run operator’s infrastructure 5G compatible.

The telecom regulator has drafted a guideline on landing rights for broadcasting satellite services as the government looks to monetise the country’s lone satellite Bangabandhu-1.

The government is set to open up the satellite and undersea submarine cable business to the private sector as it looks to expand the capacity in preparation for a Digital Bangladesh.

The government is set to form a specialised firm to fund and nurture startups and ICT entrepreneurs under the Innovation Design and

The telecom regulator is set to lift the partial block on the bandwidth capacity of Grameenphone and Robi after the government

Chinese smartphone manufacturer Vivo is all set to roll out the first mobile assembly plant in Bangladesh with full foreign direct

Users of two leading mobile phone operators –- Grameenphone and Robi -- are recently experiencing poor quality internet service across the country as the telecom regulator reduced their bandwidth to realise its claimed dues of Tk 13,446 crore that was found in audits, which are being contested.

Bangladesh Post Office’s mobile financial service Nagad is seeking to take over the mobile phone top-up business in the country, which last year saw credit recharges of around Tk 26,000 crore.

Transactions through the mobile financial service platform hit a record Tk 42,236.23 crore in May as discounts offered by the major

Pathao, a ride-hailing company and one of the fastest growing tech startups in Asia, cut more than 50 percent of its workforce in the last two days as it struggles to raise funds amid waning popularity for its services.

The government’s move to raise the mobile operators’ turnover tax to 2 percent from 0.75 percent from the new fiscal year will drive

At a time when the government should be encouraging virtual businesses, Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal has proposed 7.5 percent value-added tax on them in his budget for fiscal 2019-20, making their services dearer.

Mobile phone services are likely to become costlier from today due to increased taxes. The National Board of Revenue sent a regulatory order to the mobile carries to increase the supplementary duty (SD) to 10 percent from 5 from midnight yesterday.

Robi is planning to raise Tk 400 crore from the local market by issuing a Shariah-based security bond with the face value of each certificate being Tk 1 lakh.

Crores of mobile phone users can brace themselves for poorer network quality as the carriers and tower licence holders have failed to get on the same page seven months into the new arrangement.

Once a much-hyped breakthrough for internet communication, WiMax is now on its last legs in Bangladesh after two out of the three operators that deployed the wireless broadband technology turned off their switches.

Smartphone sales bounced back from a year-long rough patch in the first quarter of 2019 helped by a fall in prices of handsets after

Eid shopping through online platforms reached Tk 120 crore in the first three weeks of Ramadan thanks to the growing popularity of