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Telenor’s Grameenphone Tuesday celebrated a remarkable milestone on Tuesday when it welcomed its 50 millionth mobile customer in Bangladesh. Grameenphone (GP), 55.8 percent owned by Norwegian telecom company Telenor and 34.2 percent by local Grameen Telecom, has achieved this goal after 17 years of business in the country. At a press conference in Dhaka, top […]
Read MoreKenya’s Airtel has confirmed that the country’s Competition Authority is investigating a complaint about the pricing of mobile money services. Airtel had sent a complaint to the anti-trust regulator after reportedly noticing that the country’s largest mobile network operator, Safaricom charges more for money transfers to Airtel customers than it does for transfers to its […]
Read MoreThe National Board of Revenue has taken an initiative to impose surcharge at the rate of one per cent on mobile phone services including talk time to boost revenue collection from the sector, officials said. They said that the proposed surcharge would be named ‘development surcharge’. The revenue to be collected from the sector will […]
Read MoreBangladesh’s mobile phone subscribers topped 116 million at the end of May, with about 3 million new users in the first five months of this year, official data showed Wednesday. According to Bangladesh’s Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC), the total number of cell phone users in the South Asian country of about 153 million people reached […]
Read MoreOnly 5 million of Bangladesh’s 152 million citizens have regular Internet access. Three-quarters live in rural villages. The Infoladies, a group of about 50 women in their early 20s, travel through the countryside equipped with a laptop computer, a tablet, a smartphone, a digital camera, and a glucometer ministering to the technologically impoverished, reports Bloomberg […]
Read MoreNo time for LTE complacency; it’s full speed ahead for trials of the next generation of mobile broadband technologies. Guy Daniels reports. Japan’s NTT DoCoMo has today announced plans for major 5G experimental trials with six of the industry’s leading equipment vendors. Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson, Fujitsu, NEC, Nokia and Samsung will collaborate with the mobile operator […]
Read MoreDHAKA, May 8 (NsNewsWire) — Grameenphone brings in an Internet enabled mobile handset at lowest cost in Bangladesh. The Symphony D51i handset priced BDT 1490 comes with attractive free Data package from Grameenphone.The handset was unveiled today at GPHouse in presence of the officials from Grameenphone Ltd. and Edison Group (Symphony Mobile). Erlend Prestgard, Head […]
Read MoreNorway, May 7 (NsNewsWire) — Telenor Group Wednesday announced that it has appointed Mr. Michael Patrick Foley as the new Chief Executive Officer of Telenor Pakistan. Mr. Foley assumes the role at a significant moment in Telenor Pakistan’s history – as the country moves into a future where everyone will be able to access the […]
Read Moreঢাকা, মার্চ ১১ (এনএসনিউজওয়্যার) — বিজ্ঞান ও প্রযুক্তি প্রতিমন্ত্রী স্থপতি ইয়াফেস ওসমান বলেছেন, বিশ্বমানের সর্বাধুনিক বিজ্ঞান ও শিল্প গবেষণাগার গড়ে তুলতে বর্তমান সরকার নিরলসভাবে কাজ করে যাচ্ছে। বিগত পাঁচ বছরের সাফল্যের ধারাবাহিকতায় এই মেয়াদেও এক্ষেত্রে অগ্রাধিকার ভিত্তিতে সরকার কাজ করে যাচ্ছে। প্রতিমন্ত্রী আজ ঢাকায় বাংলাদেশ বিজ্ঞান ও শিল্প গবেষণা পরিষদের (বিসিএসআইআর) মিলনায়তনে আয়োজিত “Bio-analytical Excellence […]
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