Bangladesh to check spillover of mobile services into India

Shillong, Jan. 14 (NsNewsWire) —  Bangladesh officials Tuesday assured India that they would convince their mobile service providers to prevent the spillover of Bangladesh mobile phone services in the border areas of Meghalaya.

“We have expressed our concern with Bangladesh counterparts on the spillover of mobile signals from Bangladesh and use of Bangladesh SIM cards by our (Indian) people residing on the international border,” Meghalaya`s East Khasi Hills district magistrate Sanjay Goyal told journalists, reports Z news.

“They (Bangladesh officials) have assured us that they will talk to their government and would also convene a meeting with telecom operators to reduce the strength of the mobile radio frequency to prevent it from spilling over to the Indian side,” he said.

Indian authorities raised this issue at the two-day district magistrate-level meet between India and Bangladesh, which concluded here.

“Our main point of contention was that anti-social elements, be it militants or dacoits, are misusing the spillover mobile networks to carry out their nefarious activities which could prove to be a security threat to both countries,” Goyal said.