Bangladesh's First Press News Agency
London, Feb. 10 (NsNewsWire) — The GSMA has announced the nominees for the 2015 Global Mobile Awards, which are this year celebrating 20 years of achievement and innovation across the mobile industry. World-renowned actor, comedian, writer and film producer John Cleese will host the Global Mobile Awards ceremony on Tuesday, 3rd March at the GSMA […]
Read MoreNEW DELHI, Feb. 10 (NsNewsWire) — A day before Xiaomi’s Mi 4 smartphone goes on sale on Flipkart, the Chinese smartphone maker has announced that it’s also bringing the phone’s 64GB version to India. Xiaomi has posted a tweet via its official India account saying that Mi 4 (64GB) is coming. The tweet features a […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Feb. 10 (NsNewsWire) — Bangladesh’s biggest mobile phone operator Grameenphone (GP) has reported revenue of 102.7 billion taka (about 1.32 billion U.S. dollars) for 2014, up 6.3 percent from last year. The company, which is listed on the Dhaka Stock Exchange in Bangladesh, Monday in a press briefing in Dhaka said its service revenue […]
Read MoreBEIJING, Jan. 27 (NsNewsWire) — China’s top economic planner on Monday announced the retail price of gasoline would be reduced by 365 yuan (60 U.S. dollars) per tonne and diesel by 350 yuan per tonne, the 13th price slash since July. The adjustment, which will come into effective on Tuesday, means retail prices will drop […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Jan. 20 (NsNewsWire)– A day after Bangladesh authorities blocked Viber and Tango for “security reason,” they blocked Monday three more online voice and messaging services — WhatsApp, mypeople and Line — on the same ground. Bangladesh Telecommunication and Regulatory Commission official who preferred to be unnamed confirmed the government decision to Xinhua. He said […]
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DHAKA, Jan. 19 (NsNewsWire) — Bangladeshi telecoms authorities have shut down smartphone messaging service Viber, which had become a popular communication medium for anti-government protesters. The Bangladesh Telecommunications and Regulatory Commission closed down the app “for the time being” on orders from law enforcement and security agencies, a commission spokesman told AFP. He did not […]
Read MoreShillong, 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 […]
Read MoreBEIJING, Jan. 4 (NsNewsWire) — Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi Inc. sold 61.12 million smartphones in 2014, up 227 percent year on year, company founder and chief executive officer (CEO) Lei Jun said Sunday. Total sales revenue with tax reached 74.3 billion yuan (12 billion U.S. dollars), up 135 percent year on year, Lei said in […]
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DHAKA, Dec. 23 (NsNewsWire) — Bangladesh had more than 19 million active mobile subscribers at the end of November with five million new users in the first 11 months of 2014. According to the Bangladesh’s Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) data, the total subscriber base at the end of November stood at 19.623 million. It also […]
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