Bangladesh trails behind 14 low, middle income countries in internet usage gender gap
When it comes to accessing digital services, Bangladeshi women are lagging way behind men with just 16 per cent having access to the internet compared with 33 per cent of the opposite gender, according to a GSMA report published recently.
4y ago
Fair Group announces car assembly tie-up with Hyundai
Fair Technology yesterday announced it has entered into an exclusive partnership with South Korean automotive manufacturer Hyundai Motors to set up a car assembly plant in Bangladesh within the second half of next year.
4y ago
To tighten purse strings, software maker moves office to rural backwater
Most companies have been put in harm’s way because of the ongoing pandemic, but a local software and mobile application developer stands to benefit from the new normal.
4y ago
Digital Bangladesh held back by service delivery bottlenecks: Robi CEO
There is a very big gap between the reality and vision declared by the government on digitalisation as a huge number of bottlenecks lie behind service delivery processes, said a top executive of a Bangladeshi mobile carrier yesterday.
4y ago
Bangladesh lags behind Asia Pacific peers in telecom services: GSMA
In the digital age, Bangladesh’s mobile telecom market is still dominated by the second generation (2G) services while scenarios in other Asia Pacific countries are quite different and are predominated by 4G services, according to a GSMA report published on Monday.
4y ago
A whopping 46 lakh mobile connections vanished amid pandemic
Mobile phone operators are struggling to retain their active subscribers despite offering lucrative packages, including free minutes, SMS and extra data, as the coronavirus-induced economic downturn has affected all sectors and curtailed people’s income.
4y ago
First SMP restrictions come into effect after nine years
Today will be the first time a restriction will come into effect on Grameenphone since the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) started working on Significant Market Power (SMP) guidelines nine years back to enhance competition and bring balance to the market.
4y ago
Japan, the land of rising promise for Bangladesh’s ICT sector
Japan -- ever at the forefront of science and technology thanks to its culture of intensive mathematics education and reverence for engineers.
4y ago
August 29, 2019
Axiata-Trust Bank JV gets nod to launch MFS
A joint venture of Trust Bank and Malaysia’s Axiata Group is set to roll out a new kind of mobile financial service in Bangladesh after it received a no-objection certificate from the central bank yesterday.
August 27, 2019
Buoyant economy sending positive signals to global investors
Bangladesh’s steady higher economic growth is sending strong messages to foreign investors that the country is a place to invest in and do business in various areas, including the service sector, said an angel investor of local technology company Shohoz.
August 26, 2019
Tk 435cr, not Tk 8,744cr
Mistakenly changing taka values to dollars, the telecom regulator gave the High Court incorrect information about digital advertisement spending on different social media by three mobile operators, The Daily Star has found.
August 23, 2019
Smart shopping in Bangladesh lowest among peers
Only 6 percent of smartphone users in Bangladesh are regularly making purchases from online shops, trailing far behind those in neighbouring India and Pakistan, found a study of research platform GSMA Intelligence.
August 22, 2019
Summit to raise Tk 100cr through Mudaraba bond
Summit Communication plans to raise Tk 100 crore from the local market by issuing a Shariah-based non-convertible Mudaraba bond to expand its fibre optic cable network up to the remotest part of the country.
August 19, 2019
NGO aid rises on Rohingya crisis
Foreign donations through the NGO Affairs Bureau soared 19.85 percent year-on-year to Tk 7,929.43 crore in fiscal 2018-19 on the back of rising humanitarian assistance for the Rohingyas.
August 18, 2019
WiFi Haat enlivens rural areas
Carnival Internet, a local internet service provider, has brought internet access to remote parts of the country, where people are hungry for internet but have next to no access, by way of WiFi Haat -- an inspired move that will help thousands of locals.
August 8, 2019
A curious decision
After successive drives in different hospitals, diagnostics and dispensaries by the Directorate of National Consumer Rights Protection (DNCRP), during which they had fined some top hospitals for charging higher than the government declared rate for dengue tests, the officials were not seen in the field in last three days.
August 7, 2019
BTRC to go tough against GP, Robi
The telecom regulator is set to issue two separate show cause notices to Grameenphone and Robi asking them to reply within 30 days why their licences will not be cancelled despite violating the licensing conditions by not paying the telecom regulator’s ‘dues’.
August 4, 2019
Online cattle market lukewarm for dengue fears, floods
Online sales of sacrificial cows have been met with a setback this year for floods in northern parts of the country and the dengue
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