Mobile financial service providers in Bangladesh would be able to launch an inter-distributor cash management system to facilitate e-money and cash funds transfer during weekends and public holidays.  

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 government has selected three private firms to award them the licence to establish, maintain and operate submarine cables as it looks to ramp up the supply of bandwidth amid a surge in data consumption. 

Chinese mobile phone manufacturer Xiaomi had the biggest market share in Bangladesh in the second quarter of 2022, according to Counterpoint, a global technology market research firm.

Apple Inc plans to start making the iPhone 14 in India about two months after its release out of China, in a move that will narrow the gap from the typical six to nine months for previous launches, Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday.

Mahtab Uddin Ahmed, former managing director and chief executive officer (CEO) of Robi Axiata, has filed a suit against the telecom operator, its board chairman and former group CEO seeking Tk 227 crore in retirement benefits and damages for 'wrongful dismissal'.

Digital, social media and OTT platform entrepreneurs and experts demanded industry-friendly regulation so that this new media can harness the potential of the new avenue of economic opportunities.

Mobile phone operator Banglalink registered double-digit revenue growth in the second quarter of 2022.

Grameenphone has been honoured with the Digital Nation Award by the GSMA for democratising connectivity and digitally empowering communities.

Bangladesh has embarked on a journey from a labour-intensive economy to a digital economy and here the hi-tech parks will be the driving force, said State Minister for ICT Zunaid Ahmed Palak today.

Indonesia has blocked search engine website Yahoo, payments firm Paypal and several gaming websites due to failure to comply with licensing rules, an official said on Saturday, sparking a backlash in social media.

Banglalink wins with a score of 10 Mbps, 1.2 Mbps ahead of second placed Grameenphone, while Robi and TeleTalk are in third and fourth place, respectively, with scores of 6.8 Mbps and 4.4 Mbps respectively, according to the report.

The telecom regulator yesterday withdrew the directive under which 50 per cent bandwidth of aamra technologies was blocked because of non-payment of outstanding revenue of over Tk 33 crore.

The telecom regulator today withdrew the directive under which 50 per cent bandwidth of aamra technologies was blocked because of non-payment of outstanding revenue of over Tk 33 crore.

Leading telecom operator Grameenphone has announced keeping its headquarters GPHouse non-operational on Thursdays when its employees will work from home as part of effort to cut power consumption to help the government fight the ongoing power crisis.

Listed telecom company Grameenphone logged 8 per cent rise in profits in the April to June period of 2022 riding on higher revenue earnings.

Under this contract, RedDot Digital will provide managed data centre colocation facility for StanChart’s disaster recovery site.

The smartphone production in the country dropped around 50 per cent month-on-month in May due to rising dollar prices and soaring inflation that led people to tighten their belts.

Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) recently received around BDT 2.8 Crores as fines from three mobile phone operators of the country over the allegations of operating illegal VoIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol). 

ADN Telecom yesterday said it is going to acquire 60 per cent of SOS Developments Ltd at an investment of Tk 2 crore.