Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday emphasised on developing the information technology and imparting training to the youth community to handle the unemployment problem through outsourcing. Read the rest of this entry »
International telecoms, internet and all voip connections will remain disconnected for about four hours from 1:00am on October 29 for power configuration of the South East Asia-Middle East-West Europe 4 submarine cable (SEA-ME-WE-4) link in Singapore. Read the rest of this entry »
Intel and Qubee on Sunday signed a memorandum of understanding under which the companies will jointly propagate broadband internet along with wireless solutions such as WiMAX. Read the rest of this entry »
The users connected to the internet through local internet service providers (ISPs) can now talk to each other and telecom subscribers, as the telecom regulator made a tariff directive to commercially launch IP telephony services. Read the rest of this entry »
(Unb, Dhaka) Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday unveiled an ambitious digitisation plan for building Bangladesh as a country fully furnished with modern telecommunications system for faster delivery of services to the people. Read the rest of this entry »
Another calendar year has gone by from the life of e-activism in Bangladesh. However, the difference from other years and 2009 is the Digital Bangladesh program of the current government. A key promise of the government is to turn Bangladesh into a middle-income country by 2021 by creating a Digital Bangladesh that will raise the people’s standard of living and improve the business environment. Read the rest of this entry »
Fiber@Home Limited has completed its three-year target of nationwide transmission network, mandated by the government, in just six months. Read the rest of this entry »
Bangladesh is going to launch a GSO Satellite in the nonplanned space slot 1020E. The main purpose of the satellite is to establish telecommunication network, geo-survey, oceanographic survey, marine biology, forestry , mineral survey etc. Read the rest of this entry »
Bangladesh Telecommunicaion Regulatory Commission (BTRC) Chairman Brig Gen (Retd) Zia Ahmed sought cooperation from concerned stakeholders to stop Illegal Voice over Internet Protocol ( VoIP ) in the country. Read the rest of this entry »
The Bangladesh telecom regulator has taken a move to connect Bangladesh with two more submarine cables through private sector initiative within one and a half years as internet-based services are often disrupted with the country’s lone undersea cable. Read the rest of this entry »