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.

The telecom operators today wrote a letter to the telecom regular seeking steps to stop the further spread of the network interference devices such as repeaters, jammers and boosters, which cripple the networks to deliver quality services.

Bangladesh Telecommunication Company Limited (BTCL) today launched its prepaid services enabling the customers to avail telephone and internet services without prior deposits.

The government should consider the operators’ demand on slashing corporate tax as the mobile operators have to continue investing big to cope up with rapidly changing technology, said Shyam Sunder Sikder, chairman of the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission.

The European Union on Monday extended for another 10 years its ban on mobile phone roaming surcharges for people using their European handsets while travelling in the 27-nation bloc.

The Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission fetched around $1.23 billion or Tk 10,645 crore from spectrum auction as all operators acquired a total of 190MHz spectrum.

Spectrum auction for 2022 started today for bands that can support both fourth-generation (4G) and 5G technologies.

The country's 45 per cent people do not use mobile financial service (MFS) and 32 per cent of them refrain from using the service for fear being victim of fraudulent activity, found a survey.

Meta, formerly known as the Facebook company, yesterday launched its global #SheMeansBusiness programme in Bangladesh to provide women entrepreneurs with the skills, connections and technology required to build and grow their businesses online.

Bangladesh has met the affordability target on internet prices set by the United Nations Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development in 2021.

Mobile operator Grameenphone is celebrating its 25th anniversary, now aiming to contribute beyond connectivity.

Robi posted 3 per cent rise in its earnings in the financial year ended on December 2021, the country’s second largest mobile phone operator said in a disclosure today.

Grameenphone recently launched one 4G modem and two routers with prices ranging from Tk 2,650 to Tk 4,499 through a ceremony at GP House in Dhaka.

State-run telecom operator Teletalk has failed to ensure the standard call success rate and call drop rate in Dhaka division, excluding two city corporations in the capital.

Grameenphone, the country’s top mobile phone operator, has launched eSIMs for the first time in Bangladesh and the new product will be available from March 7.

The telecom regulator has given the operators additional 15 days to implement a directive that cuts the number of offers and enables customers to carry forward their unused internet data of the current deal to the next one.

Banglalink displayed a strong performance in 2021 as it posted the highest revenue growth in six years on the back of strong data sales as the coronavirus pandemic turbocharged the digital transformation of work, purchase, education and entertainment.

The telecom regulator is set to bring massive changes to mobile data and other packages, a move that will cut the number of offers and enable customers to carry forward their unused data of the current deal to the next one.

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.

From now on, telecom operators will send all promotional and system-generated text messages and notifications in Bangla.