Airtel launches 3G services in Habiganj

Dhaka, Dec 2 (NsNewsWire) –Airtel Bangladesh Limited, the fastest growing telecom operator in Bangladesh, has launched its 3G services in Habiganj with a colorful festive rally on Monday. Airtel thrives to deliver best in class 3G services for its valued customers of Bangladesh. The company has been relentlessly expanding its 3G network throughout the country. […]

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Solar Homes Helping to End ‘Power Discrimination’ in Bangladesh

DHAKA, Nov. 30 (NsNewsWire) — Electricity, the very thing bringing these words to your eyes, is inaccessible to 45 percent of Bangladesh’s population. Fewer than half the people living in the country’s rural areas are on the power grid at all. That’s why the Solar Home System Project, launched in 2007, is particularly good news […]

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Bangladesh’s active mobile subscriber base reaches 118.932 mln

DHAKA, Nov. 27 (NsNewsWire) — The total number of Bangladesh cell phone users reached 118.932 million at the end of October this year, official data showed Thursday. According to Bangladesh’s Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC), the number of subscribers of the country’s six cell phone operators — Grameenphone, Banglalink, Robi, Airtel, Citycell, Teletalk — at the […]

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Ex-Bangladesh minister jailed for hurting Muslims’ religious sentiments

DHAKA, Nov. 25 (NsNewsWire) — Abdul Latif Siddiquee, who was removed on Oct. 16 from the cabinet for his derogatory comments, has landed in jail in a case for hurting Muslims’ religious sentiments. Former Bangladeshi Posts, Telecommunications and Information Technology Minister Abdul Latif Siddiqueed was sent to jail after he surrendered Tuesday. He returned to […]

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Microsoft Bangladesh captures World’s largest selfie

Dhaka, Nov 23 (NsNewsWire) — Microsoft Mobile Device & Services (MMDS) Bangladesh mesmerized the world to create World’s Largest Selfie. The World’s Largest Selfie has been captured with at least 1,151 selfie lovers in one gigantic selfie in front of Bashundhara City Shopping Mall on Saturday evening, said a press release. Microsoft also released a […]

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Grameenphone join hands with Akhoni.com

DHAKA, Nov. 18 (NsNewsWire) — Grameenphone customers now will be able to browse Akhoni.comweb portal for free after signing an exclusive partnership agreement with Akhoni.com recently. Under this Agreement, Grameenphone customers will be able to avail this service for free usingtheir default handset browser and Opera Mini browser, said the country’s largest cell phone operator […]

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Mobile transaction users to surpass 2 bln by 2017: report

LONDON, Nov. 18 (NsNewsWire) — Over two billion mobile phone or tablet users will make some form of mobile commerce transaction globally by the end of 2017, up from 1.6 billion this year, a research showed by Juniper Research Monday. According to the report, mobile consumption of services such as banking, money transfer and purchases […]

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China Mobile’s 4G users top 50 mln

BEIJING, Nov. 15 (NsNewsWire) — China Mobile, China’s largest telecom service provider, said on Friday that it had passed its annual target and had more than 50 million fourth-generation (4G) clients as of the end of October. The company said it had built 570,000 4G-base stations since the Industry and Information Technology Ministry issued a […]

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