Number of mobile users of Bangladesh to reach 73m by 2014

IE Market Research Corp. (IEMR), the Canadian-based provider of market intelligence services, said given the latest quarter data, the total wireless subscribers in Bangladesh would increase from the current 53.83 million to 72.7 million by 2014.
It however said wireless subscriber growth in Bangladesh has slowed down, growing only 4.7 per cent in the third quarter of 2009.

The market research corporation said GrameenPhone would maintain its lead in Bangladesh's wireless market over the next five years with an expected subscriber base of 32 million by 2014.
The other players will also be gaining more subscribers over the next five years. It predicts that Banglalink will have 15.5 million, TM International will have 13.1 million, and Warid will have 6.7 million mobile subscribers respectively by the end of 2014.
Grameenphone, jointly owned by Telenor and Bangladesh's Grameen Telecom, currently leads the country's 53.83 million mobile market with 23.48 million active users.
Banglalink stands second with 14.07 million users, which is followed by Axiata 10.31 million, Warid 3.01 million, Citycell 1.94 million and state-run Teletalk 1.02 million users, according to the latest posting of Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC), the telecom regulator.
IEMR said Warid's subscriber market share will be increasing over the next five years after BTRC approved India's top telecoms company Bharti Airtel $300 million initial investment offer.

Number of mobile users of Bangladesh to reach 73m by 2014

IE Market Research Corp. (IEMR), the Canadian-based provider of market intelligence services, said given the latest quarter data, the total wireless subscribers in Bangladesh would increase from the current 53.83 million to 72.7 million by 2014.
It however said wireless subscriber growth in Bangladesh has slowed down, growing only 4.7 per cent in the third quarter of 2009.

The market research corporation said GrameenPhone would maintain its lead in Bangladesh's wireless market over the next five years with an expected subscriber base of 32 million by 2014.
The other players will also be gaining more subscribers over the next five years. It predicts that Banglalink will have 15.5 million, TM International will have 13.1 million, and Warid will have 6.7 million mobile subscribers respectively by the end of 2014.
Grameenphone, jointly owned by Telenor and Bangladesh's Grameen Telecom, currently leads the country's 53.83 million mobile market with 23.48 million active users.
Banglalink stands second with 14.07 million users, which is followed by Axiata 10.31 million, Warid 3.01 million, Citycell 1.94 million and state-run Teletalk 1.02 million users, according to the latest posting of Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC), the telecom regulator.
IEMR said Warid's subscriber market share will be increasing over the next five years after BTRC approved India's top telecoms company Bharti Airtel $300 million initial investment offer.

Number of mobile users of Bangladesh to reach 73m by 2014

IE Market Research Corp. (IEMR), the Canadian-based provider of market intelligence services, said given the latest quarter data, the total wireless subscribers in Bangladesh would increase from the current 53.83 million to 72.7 million by 2014.
It however said wireless subscriber growth in Bangladesh has slowed down, growing only 4.7 per cent in the third quarter of 2009.

The market research corporation said GrameenPhone would maintain its lead in Bangladesh's wireless market over the next five years with an expected subscriber base of 32 million by 2014.
The other players will also be gaining more subscribers over the next five years. It predicts that Banglalink will have 15.5 million, TM International will have 13.1 million, and Warid will have 6.7 million mobile subscribers respectively by the end of 2014.
Grameenphone, jointly owned by Telenor and Bangladesh's Grameen Telecom, currently leads the country's 53.83 million mobile market with 23.48 million active users.
Banglalink stands second with 14.07 million users, which is followed by Axiata 10.31 million, Warid 3.01 million, Citycell 1.94 million and state-run Teletalk 1.02 million users, according to the latest posting of Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC), the telecom regulator.
IEMR said Warid's subscriber market share will be increasing over the next five years after BTRC approved India's top telecoms company Bharti Airtel $300 million initial investment offer.

মোবাইল স্কিনে WARID/Grameen Phone/Tele Talk / Aktel এর টাওয়ার লোকেশন!!!

আপনি যদি আপনার মোবাইল থেকে WARID/Grameen Phone/Tele Talk / Aktel এর নিকটবর্তী টাওয়ারের লোকেশনের নাম
আপনার মোবাইল স্কিনে দেখতে চান তবে নিচের সেটাপটি আপনার মোবাইলে দিয়ে ফেলুন।

For Nokia Users->
1.Menu>Settings>Phone Settings>Cell info Display>On

NOW Return Your Phone Display and see your WARID/ GP/Tele Talk tower location.

For All Users->
1.Messages>Cell Broadcast/Cell Info/Network Messages/CB>Enable/On/Active>Activate a topic/Activate channel/Add Topic>Topic or Channel ID is: 050 or write only 50.

NOW Return Your Phone Display and see your WARID/ GP/Tele Talk tower location.

মোবাইল স্কিনে WARID/Grameen Phone/Tele Talk / Aktel এর টাওয়ার লোকেশন!!!

আপনি যদি আপনার মোবাইল থেকে WARID/Grameen Phone/Tele Talk / Aktel এর নিকটবর্তী টাওয়ারের লোকেশনের নাম
আপনার মোবাইল স্কিনে দেখতে চান তবে নিচের সেটাপটি আপনার মোবাইলে দিয়ে ফেলুন।

For Nokia Users->
1.Menu>Settings>Phone Settings>Cell info Display>On

NOW Return Your Phone Display and see your WARID/ GP/Tele Talk tower location.

For All Users->
1.Messages>Cell Broadcast/Cell Info/Network Messages/CB>Enable/On/Active>Activate a topic/Activate channel/Add Topic>Topic or Channel ID is: 050 or write only 50.

NOW Return Your Phone Display and see your WARID/ GP/Tele Talk tower location.

মোবাইল স্কিনে WARID/Grameen Phone/Tele Talk / Aktel এর টাওয়ার লোকেশন!!!

আপনি যদি আপনার মোবাইল থেকে WARID/Grameen Phone/Tele Talk / Aktel এর নিকটবর্তী টাওয়ারের লোকেশনের নাম
আপনার মোবাইল স্কিনে দেখতে চান তবে নিচের সেটাপটি আপনার মোবাইলে দিয়ে ফেলুন।

For Nokia Users->
1.Menu>Settings>Phone Settings>Cell info Display>On

NOW Return Your Phone Display and see your WARID/ GP/Tele Talk tower location.

For All Users->
1.Messages>Cell Broadcast/Cell Info/Network Messages/CB>Enable/On/Active>Activate a topic/Activate channel/Add Topic>Topic or Channel ID is: 050 or write only 50.

NOW Return Your Phone Display and see your WARID/ GP/Tele Talk tower location.

Robi lit up ten remote villages with solar power

Leading telecommunications solution provider Robi on Saturday lit up ten remote villages across the country with solar power. Undertaken as part of the CSR initiative of the company, the programme coincided with the heralding of the Bengali New Year.
The villages are Tamaruddi of Nowakhali, Bachamara of Manikganj, Pachuria of Gopalganj, Protapnagar of Shatkhira, Charjanajat of Madaripur, Motherbunia of Patuakhali, Chaitar Khamar of Kurigram, Char Neuton of Bhola, Padma of Barguna and Pirganj of Jadabpur. These villages will be known as Robi Palli.
This initiative was kicked off by Chief Marketing Officer of Robi, Bidyut Kumar Basu when he lightened up a house in a remote village of Amtoli.
To facilitate development of Bangladesh's rural people, Robi is initiating a project to reach 500 nomes in 50 hard-to-reach villages all over the country. Each of these 500 rurai households will be provided with 20WP solar panels by May this year.
Chief Marketing Officer of Robi, Bidyut Kumar Basu said, we respect our local tradition, yet march ahead with innovation and creativity. According to the Ministry of Power 53% of Bangladesh is still in need of power supply, it is also a country that is blessed with abundant solar energy, which can provide a clean solution to this shortage.
Sania Mahmood, Head of Marketing, Mohiuddin Babar, Head of Communication and Media Relation along with other officials of Robi were also present at the event.

Robi lit up ten remote villages with solar power

Leading telecommunications solution provider Robi on Saturday lit up ten remote villages across the country with solar power. Undertaken as part of the CSR initiative of the company, the programme coincided with the heralding of the Bengali New Year.
The villages are Tamaruddi of Nowakhali, Bachamara of Manikganj, Pachuria of Gopalganj, Protapnagar of Shatkhira, Charjanajat of Madaripur, Motherbunia of Patuakhali, Chaitar Khamar of Kurigram, Char Neuton of Bhola, Padma of Barguna and Pirganj of Jadabpur. These villages will be known as Robi Palli.
This initiative was kicked off by Chief Marketing Officer of Robi, Bidyut Kumar Basu when he lightened up a house in a remote village of Amtoli.
To facilitate development of Bangladesh's rural people, Robi is initiating a project to reach 500 nomes in 50 hard-to-reach villages all over the country. Each of these 500 rurai households will be provided with 20WP solar panels by May this year.
Chief Marketing Officer of Robi, Bidyut Kumar Basu said, we respect our local tradition, yet march ahead with innovation and creativity. According to the Ministry of Power 53% of Bangladesh is still in need of power supply, it is also a country that is blessed with abundant solar energy, which can provide a clean solution to this shortage.
Sania Mahmood, Head of Marketing, Mohiuddin Babar, Head of Communication and Media Relation along with other officials of Robi were also present at the event.

Robi lit up ten remote villages with solar power

Leading telecommunications solution provider Robi on Saturday lit up ten remote villages across the country with solar power. Undertaken as part of the CSR initiative of the company, the programme coincided with the heralding of the Bengali New Year.
The villages are Tamaruddi of Nowakhali, Bachamara of Manikganj, Pachuria of Gopalganj, Protapnagar of Shatkhira, Charjanajat of Madaripur, Motherbunia of Patuakhali, Chaitar Khamar of Kurigram, Char Neuton of Bhola, Padma of Barguna and Pirganj of Jadabpur. These villages will be known as Robi Palli.
This initiative was kicked off by Chief Marketing Officer of Robi, Bidyut Kumar Basu when he lightened up a house in a remote village of Amtoli.
To facilitate development of Bangladesh's rural people, Robi is initiating a project to reach 500 nomes in 50 hard-to-reach villages all over the country. Each of these 500 rurai households will be provided with 20WP solar panels by May this year.
Chief Marketing Officer of Robi, Bidyut Kumar Basu said, we respect our local tradition, yet march ahead with innovation and creativity. According to the Ministry of Power 53% of Bangladesh is still in need of power supply, it is also a country that is blessed with abundant solar energy, which can provide a clean solution to this shortage.
Sania Mahmood, Head of Marketing, Mohiuddin Babar, Head of Communication and Media Relation along with other officials of Robi were also present at the event.

JS panel asks for details on Warid, Airtel deal

Says govt incurred losses as Warid allowed to sell stake for low price
The parliamentary standing committee on the planning ministry on Sunday asked the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission to submit a report on how 70 per cent of the shares of mobile operator Warid had been sold to India’s Bharti Airtel only for Tk 70 lakh.
The committee chairman, Oli Ahmed, after a meeting, told reporters they had discussed media reports that Warid had been allowed to sell its 70 per cent stake to Airtel only for Tk 70 lakh.
‘The country and the government sustained a loss as Warid was allowed to hand over its share for such a low price,’ he said.
The government lost millions of dollars in transfer fees as the commission allegedly allowed Warid, which invested more than $600 million in the country, to hand over 70 per cent of its stake to Airtel for only Tk 70 lakh in recent times.
The standing committee also suggested that the posts and telecommunications ministry should bring Voice over Internet Protocol under the jurisdiction of law.
It will help to increase revenue earnings of the government as well as provide internet users with better services, the committee observed.
The meeting also recommended making capable the state-run mobile operator Teletalk so that it can survive in the competition with the private mobile operators.
Committee members planning minister AK Khandoker, Nawab Ali Abbas Khan and Azizul Haque Chowdhury attended the meeting.
The meeting discussed in details different projects undertaken by the ministries of land, posts and telecommunications and social welfare.
As for land ministry, it decided that the ministry would inform the committee in three months of the steps it has taken to reclaim illegally occupied government land, how much land has so far been reclaimed and whether any new incident of land occupation has taken places in recent times.
As for social welfare ministry, the meeting decided that proper monitoring should be ensured so that the registered non-governmental organisations properly follow the conditions of registration.

JS panel asks for details on Warid, Airtel deal

Says govt incurred losses as Warid allowed to sell stake for low price
The parliamentary standing committee on the planning ministry on Sunday asked the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission to submit a report on how 70 per cent of the shares of mobile operator Warid had been sold to India’s Bharti Airtel only for Tk 70 lakh.
The committee chairman, Oli Ahmed, after a meeting, told reporters they had discussed media reports that Warid had been allowed to sell its 70 per cent stake to Airtel only for Tk 70 lakh.
‘The country and the government sustained a loss as Warid was allowed to hand over its share for such a low price,’ he said.
The government lost millions of dollars in transfer fees as the commission allegedly allowed Warid, which invested more than $600 million in the country, to hand over 70 per cent of its stake to Airtel for only Tk 70 lakh in recent times.
The standing committee also suggested that the posts and telecommunications ministry should bring Voice over Internet Protocol under the jurisdiction of law.
It will help to increase revenue earnings of the government as well as provide internet users with better services, the committee observed.
The meeting also recommended making capable the state-run mobile operator Teletalk so that it can survive in the competition with the private mobile operators.
Committee members planning minister AK Khandoker, Nawab Ali Abbas Khan and Azizul Haque Chowdhury attended the meeting.
The meeting discussed in details different projects undertaken by the ministries of land, posts and telecommunications and social welfare.
As for land ministry, it decided that the ministry would inform the committee in three months of the steps it has taken to reclaim illegally occupied government land, how much land has so far been reclaimed and whether any new incident of land occupation has taken places in recent times.
As for social welfare ministry, the meeting decided that proper monitoring should be ensured so that the registered non-governmental organisations properly follow the conditions of registration.

JS panel asks for details on Warid, Airtel deal

Says govt incurred losses as Warid allowed to sell stake for low price
The parliamentary standing committee on the planning ministry on Sunday asked the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission to submit a report on how 70 per cent of the shares of mobile operator Warid had been sold to India’s Bharti Airtel only for Tk 70 lakh.
The committee chairman, Oli Ahmed, after a meeting, told reporters they had discussed media reports that Warid had been allowed to sell its 70 per cent stake to Airtel only for Tk 70 lakh.
‘The country and the government sustained a loss as Warid was allowed to hand over its share for such a low price,’ he said.
The government lost millions of dollars in transfer fees as the commission allegedly allowed Warid, which invested more than $600 million in the country, to hand over 70 per cent of its stake to Airtel for only Tk 70 lakh in recent times.
The standing committee also suggested that the posts and telecommunications ministry should bring Voice over Internet Protocol under the jurisdiction of law.
It will help to increase revenue earnings of the government as well as provide internet users with better services, the committee observed.
The meeting also recommended making capable the state-run mobile operator Teletalk so that it can survive in the competition with the private mobile operators.
Committee members planning minister AK Khandoker, Nawab Ali Abbas Khan and Azizul Haque Chowdhury attended the meeting.
The meeting discussed in details different projects undertaken by the ministries of land, posts and telecommunications and social welfare.
As for land ministry, it decided that the ministry would inform the committee in three months of the steps it has taken to reclaim illegally occupied government land, how much land has so far been reclaimed and whether any new incident of land occupation has taken places in recent times.
As for social welfare ministry, the meeting decided that proper monitoring should be ensured so that the registered non-governmental organisations properly follow the conditions of registration.

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India plans 'launch sale of 4G mobile services'

India plans to hold an auction of ultra-high-speed fourth-generation (4G) mobile phone spectrum soon after completion of 3G access now underway, a report said Wednesday.The sale for 4G, which will provide high-speed Internet connections, will begin as soon as operators roll out their 3G networks this year, Communications Minister A. Raja was quoted as saying by the Hindustan Times newspaper.
The government expects to bring in at least 350 billion rupees (eight billion dollars) from the sell-off of 3G airwaves and a follow-on auction of broadband wireless access spectrum that began last Friday and could take weeks.
Operators believe 4G will bring near-broadband speed technology to mobile phones, allowing users to receive multimedia such as TV broadcasts and online games at rates up to 10 times faster than those possible on 3G networks.
"I do not want any delay in 4G services. We should be with the rest of the world in 4G," Raja said.
Germany on Monday began Europe's first auction of 4G frequencies.
Raja said he expected the successful telecom bidders for 3G frequency would start launching their new networks within a few weeks of receiving the spectrum when it is allocated in September.
The auction of 3G spectrum will propel India into the Internet era, giving millions who have no computer access the ability to surf the web from their phones.
It will also heat up the battle for customers in the world's fastest-growing mobile market.
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has already started the pre-consultation process for the sale of 4G spectrum, Raja said.
"Once TRAI submits its recommendations, the government will work on it," he said.

India plans 'launch sale of 4G mobile services'

India plans to hold an auction of ultra-high-speed fourth-generation (4G) mobile phone spectrum soon after completion of 3G access now underway, a report said Wednesday.The sale for 4G, which will provide high-speed Internet connections, will begin as soon as operators roll out their 3G networks this year, Communications Minister A. Raja was quoted as saying by the Hindustan Times newspaper.
The government expects to bring in at least 350 billion rupees (eight billion dollars) from the sell-off of 3G airwaves and a follow-on auction of broadband wireless access spectrum that began last Friday and could take weeks.
Operators believe 4G will bring near-broadband speed technology to mobile phones, allowing users to receive multimedia such as TV broadcasts and online games at rates up to 10 times faster than those possible on 3G networks.
"I do not want any delay in 4G services. We should be with the rest of the world in 4G," Raja said.
Germany on Monday began Europe's first auction of 4G frequencies.
Raja said he expected the successful telecom bidders for 3G frequency would start launching their new networks within a few weeks of receiving the spectrum when it is allocated in September.
The auction of 3G spectrum will propel India into the Internet era, giving millions who have no computer access the ability to surf the web from their phones.
It will also heat up the battle for customers in the world's fastest-growing mobile market.
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has already started the pre-consultation process for the sale of 4G spectrum, Raja said.
"Once TRAI submits its recommendations, the government will work on it," he said.