Bangladesh cell phone operators set for launching 4G services
| DHAKA, Feb. 19 (NsNewsWire) — Bangladesh’s top largest cell phone operator Grameenphone (GP) Sunday said it is all set to launch 4G mobile services in the country, reports Xinhua. Grameenphone Chief Executive Officer Michael Foley made the announcement at a ceremony in Dhaka on Sunday. Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) has decided to handover 4G licences to the country’s four operators Grameenphone, Robi, Banglalink and Teletalk on Monday. Grameenphone, 55.8 percent owned by Norwegian telecom company Telenor and 34.2 percent owned by local Grameen Telecom, has bagged 5 Megahertz (MHz) spectrum from 1800 band at the price of 155 million U.S. dollars from a BTRC’s 4G Spectrum auction. “Our 4G journey starts when we have the license in hand, and so does the journey for many of our valued customers,” said Michael Foley , speaking at the unveiling ceremony of two co-branded 4G smartphones, WE T1 and Micromax Canvas 1. He said Grameenphone strives to give its customers the best experience on the best technology and product. Grameenphone, with the help of leading Chinese global telecom vendor Huawei, has already given its network a test run for 4G services. Officials of other operators said they are also almost prepared to launch 4G services at their earliest in Bangladesh where the total number of mobile phone subscribers reached 145.114 million at the end of December 2017 with 18.72 million new users last year. Enditem |