The government has ordered blocking popular social networking platform Facebook and online messaging and calling services WhatsApp and Viber this morning.

Cyber café owners threaten to enforce a “digital hartal” across the country by shutting down internet services to realize their six-point demand.

The number of mobile phone internet users now stands at 5.07 crore, BTRC says with data compiled until August.

The government appoints a new chairman to the telecom regulator after cancelling the appointment of another before his taking the charge.

A special team of Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) seizes unregistered SIM cards and illegally imported electronic devices from a Gadget & Gear store in Uttara of Dhaka.

Bangladesh’s telecom regulator scraps licenses of 33 internet service providers after they failed to pay for their license renewal in time.

Subscribers who need to re-register their SIM cards will be notified by text messages from their respective mobile phone operators, says Posts and Telecommunications State Minister Tarana Halim.

Iqbal Mahmud, a former secretary of telecommunications ministry, has been appointed as the new chairman of the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission.

Nowadays online harassment is increasing at an alarming rate. BTRC's recent initiative in this regard deserves appreciation. If anyone gets harassed through Facebook or internet, he/she can go to the nearest police station to file a general diary with that link and submit the copy of GD to BTRC. Then BTRC will identify that IP address and catch the culprit.