State-owned BTCL has hit the doldrums, unable to provide new land phone connections in most metropolitan areas including Dhaka, but still has lofty plans. There are ten private sector operators providing land phone services across the country apart from BTCL. Together, the state-run and private companies provide just 1,571,748 land phone connections across a country with a population of over 150 million.
The number of BTCL customers could not reach even 1,000 though the high-speed broadband internet service was launched seven months ago. To increase the number of customers, the state-owned Bangladesh Telecommunications Company Ltd (BTCL), has now introduced three new packages and reduced charges for its other packages.
Bangladesh Telecommunication Company Ltd. (BTCL) has given connection to 50,000 clients across the country in last one and half months. Post and telecommunication minister Razi Uddin Razu told that demand for BTCL land phone has been increased after announcement of free package for clients at district and upazila levels.
The sub-committee of the parliamentary standing committee on post and telecommunication ministry has said it is pondering over finding out a way on how to make an integrated company with Bangladesh TeleCommunications Company Ltd. (BTCL), Bangladesh Submarine Cable Company Ltd. (BSCCL) and TeleTalk Bangladesh Ltd.
Apart from the name, there has been no change at all in the first year of state-owned Bangladesh Telecommunication Company Limited as a public limited company, according to concerned people.
The state-run Bangladesh Telephone Company Limited (BTCL) is to offer free land telephone connections at district and upazila levels from July 1, initially for three months, officials said Saturday.
The state-owned Bangladesh Telecommunications Company Limited (BTCL) in its latest bid to compete with the private telecom players on the market knocked down call charges at uniform rates for all parts of the country.
Shares of state-owned Bangladesh Telecommunication Company Limited, formerly known as Bangladesh Telegraph and Telephone Board, will be floated in the stock markets within one year.
The haste of Bangladesh Telecommunications Company Ltd (BTCL) in awarding the Tk 140 crore project for installing modern internet backbone to Korean KT Corporation bypassing the BTCL board's observations has raised questions.
Even after failing to provide for equipments according to the agreement, Huawei Technologies was pardoned from the fine by BTCL.
