Grameenphone to provide tailor-made voice, data, ICT solutions to RAB

Mobile operator Grameenphone has signed a deal with the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) to provide the law enforcing agency with tailor-made voice, data and ICT solutions for the next five years.

Lt Col Reaz Shahrear, psc, G, director for communication and MIS of the Rapid Action Battalion Forces, and Nurul Ferdous Musanna, head of government and strategic business of Grameenphone, signed a corporate agreement has been signed between the two parties at the RAB Forces' headquarters on October 18.

The partnership between Grameenphone and RAB has been reinforced to help meet RAB's a telecommunication and ICT requirements, the telecom operator said in a statement today.

Chowdhury Abdullah Al-Mamun, director general of RAB Forces, expressed his continued reliability on Grameenphone and said: "RAB has been relying on Grameenphone as a trusted connectivity partner over the years for its countrywide coverage, innovative services and excellence. As we renew this partnership, I look forward to even better services from Grameenphone in the coming days."

Aiming to nourish the confidence in the relationship further, Yasir Azman, CEO of Grameenphone, said, "We are humbled to provide our telecommunication and ICT services to RAB – which needs connectivity excellence to deliver on their daily operations in every corner of the country as and when needed."

"This agreement renewal is a testimony of keeping promises to them which drives us to innovate and build advanced capabilities in our network through modernisation."

Colonel KM Azad, BPM, psc, additional director general for operations of RAB; Imtiaz Ahmed PPM, additional director general for administration, and Kazi Mahboob Hassan, chief business officer of Grameenphone, were also present at the deal signing ceremony.