Construction spree
A series of steel framed cellular towers built by different mobile operators, spoiling huge area of agricultural land, can be visualized by a train ride from the urban to the rural areas of Bangladesh. It is indeed nice to see the mobile operators self affluent to have got the ability to afford several company-owned cellular towers. However we, as a nation, should feel pity for letting go the huge area of arable agriculture land. Technically, a single cellular tower can be used by several mobile operators for covering their network in a particular segment. This would not only be economical from the mobile operator's point of view, but would also help save huge areas of arable lands of our country. Moreover, the establishment and use of individual cellular tower remain under-utilised.
Thus, it is high time that telephone regulatory commission, on emergency basis, compel the telecom companies to use a specific tower for covering a specific region in non-agricultural lands, so that a single tower in a specific area can be used by all cellular companies. This will save our much needed agricultural lands.
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