Customers' appetite for data is expanding every year, compelling mobile operators to increase their capacity and invest huge amounts of money in it, said experts and representatives from mobile operators and vendors yesterday.
Telecom and ICT Minister Mustafa Jabbar says it is impossible to hold back girls in their homes any more as the prime minister has already brought them out for education and huge number of them are engaged in development activities.
Posts, Telecommunications and IT Minister Mustafa Jabbar yesterday said section 57 of the ICT Act would no longer be there after the passing of the Digital Security Bill by parliament.
Digital Commerce Policy gets cabinet nod which will help propel e-commerce and electronic payments, said Telecom and ICT Minister Mustafa Jabbar.
The Finance Ministry assures that value added tax (VAT) on using internet will be cut by about 5 percentage points at the end users’ level from the start of July.
French company Thales Alenia Space expresses their willingness to build the country’s second satellite Bangabandhu-2, Telecom Minister Mustafa Jabbar says today.
The parliamentary standing committee on telecom and ICT says it will sit with newspaper editors, Bangladesh Federal Union of Journalists and owners of the electronic media to know their concern about the Digital Security Act-2018.
The Digital Security Bill, 2018 is placed in the parliament with the aim of ensuring cyber-security and preventing cyber-crime.
Bangladesh will export mobile sets within next two years as several plants have started rolling to assemble smart devices, Telecom and ICT Minister Mustafa Jabbar says.
Reducing internet using cost and improving the service quality are his first priority, says newly appointed Telecom and ICT Minister Mustafa Jabbar in a reception program at Bangladesh Association of Software and Information Services (BASIS).
