Bangladesh has embarked on a journey from a labour-intensive economy to a digital economy and here the hi-tech parks will be the driving force, said State Minister for ICT Zunaid Ahmed Palak today.

Indonesia has blocked search engine website Yahoo, payments firm Paypal and several gaming websites due to failure to comply with licensing rules, an official said on Saturday, sparking a backlash in social media.

Banglalink wins with a score of 10 Mbps, 1.2 Mbps ahead of second placed Grameenphone, while Robi and TeleTalk are in third and fourth place, respectively, with scores of 6.8 Mbps and 4.4 Mbps respectively, according to the report.

The telecom regulator yesterday withdrew the directive under which 50 per cent bandwidth of aamra technologies was blocked because of non-payment of outstanding revenue of over Tk 33 crore.

The telecom regulator today withdrew the directive under which 50 per cent bandwidth of aamra technologies was blocked because of non-payment of outstanding revenue of over Tk 33 crore.

Leading telecom operator Grameenphone has announced keeping its headquarters GPHouse non-operational on Thursdays when its employees will work from home as part of effort to cut power consumption to help the government fight the ongoing power crisis.

Listed telecom company Grameenphone logged 8 per cent rise in profits in the April to June period of 2022 riding on higher revenue earnings.

Under this contract, RedDot Digital will provide managed data centre colocation facility for StanChart’s disaster recovery site.

The smartphone production in the country dropped around 50 per cent month-on-month in May due to rising dollar prices and soaring inflation that led people to tighten their belts.

Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) recently received around BDT 2.8 Crores as fines from three mobile phone operators of the country over the allegations of operating illegal VoIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol). 

ADN Telecom yesterday said it is going to acquire 60 per cent of SOS Developments Ltd at an investment of Tk 2 crore.  

Country’s top telecom operator Grameenphone yesterday launched a 4G smartphone fair ahead of Eid-ul-Azha, offering customers with gifts and internet packages on selected models.

Nine local ICT talents, the toppers of the Huawei’s Seeds For The Future competition taken place in Bangladesh this year, will go to Thailand to take part in the next round of the event.

Grameenphone said the telecom watchdog’s latest ban on SIM sales is unexpected and the operator will take its next course of action after assessing the regulator’s letter related to the bar.

The telecom regulator has banned Grameenphone from selling new SIMs for the country’s top mobile network operator’s failure to provide quality service.

The telecom regulator has banned Grameenphone from selling new SIMs for the country’s top mobile network operator’s failure to provide quality service.

Google was hit with an antitrust complaint on Monday after a Danish online job-search rival took its grievance to EU regulators, alleging the Alphabet unit had unfairly favoured its own job search service.

The telecom regulator has recently fined four mobile network operators Tk 7.65 crore as their SIMs were found with equipment confiscated for the use of illegal Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP).

The Bangladesh Telecom Regulatory Commission (BTRC) fined state-run Teletalk Tk 5 crore, Robi Axiata Tk 2 crore, Grameenphone Tk 50 lakh and Banglalink Tk 15 lakh.

The mobile phone operators owe Tk 13,068 crore to the government, Telecom Minister Mustafa Jabbar told the parliament yesterday.