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
April 5, 2020
Telcos seek free spectrum
Mobile phone operators have asked the telecom regulator to allocate some spectrum for free for the time being, reasoning that their network had become busier for a surge in data use amid the novel coronavirus-induced ongoing lockdown.
April 2, 2020
Another global player departs Bangladesh
Japan’s largest mobile firm NTT DoCoMo is set to leave Bangladesh by selling its entire stake in Robi Axiata to Bharti International, raising questions about the country’s telecom policies and regulatory regime.
April 1, 2020
Homegrown ventilator goes on clinical testing next week
The Military Institute of Science and Technology (MIST), an engineering university run by the Bangladesh Armed Forces, has designed a ventilator, in the most positive development for the nation panicking from the coronavirus pandemic.
March 31, 2020
Running out of ventilators is a real possibility. And Walton comes to rescue.
For weeks now, the nation has been obsessed with one set of numbers: how many confirmed cases of coronavirus and how many have died?
March 30, 2020
Taming coronavirus rampage: Mobile users puzzled by govt SMS to gather health-related info
Mobile operators are receiving a barrage of questions from users after sending them text messages seeking information on their health condition as part of a government plan to draw a digital map to track coronavirus cases and detect potential risk zones.
March 29, 2020
Govt drawing on big data analytics to contain pandemic
The government has initiated a process to draw a digital map to track coronavirus cases and find out areas susceptible to contamination by using mobile users’ information -- a move that may help portray the real picture of a possible outbreak.
March 29, 2020
Movement control order making lives tricky for mobile and internet service providers
Mobile operators’ balance recharge has dipped 20 per cent since Thursday as the point-of-sales outlets cannot open for government’s movement control order from March 26 to April 4, which will ultimately push the customers out-of-service over next few days.
March 27, 2020
BASIS demands Tk 660cr grant, Tk 500cr loan
The Bangladesh Association of Software and Information Services (BASIS) is demanding a Tk 660-crore grant from the government to tide member companies over through the next six months for the pandemic-induced work orders cancellations and decline in service requests.
March 25, 2020
Internet traffic surges as people stay home
As the spreading coronavirus has largely paralysed public movement and social life, internet usage has shot up 15 per cent in Bangladesh as people are increasingly relying on digital life for communication, work and entertainment to escape the doom and gloom brought on by the novel virus.
March 23, 2020
Online grocery delivery pushed to breaking point
Online ventures that run grocery businesses have no time to even take a breather amidst the deluge of orders brought on by the coronavirus pandemic that calls for social distancing and avoiding large gatherings.
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