A Dhaka Court on Wednesday issued summons upon the acting editor, publisher, chief reporter and a reporter of the daily Amar Desh asking them to appear before it on November 30 in a defamation case filed by Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC).
Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) on October 5 served a legal notice on Amar Desh Publication Ltd to apologise before the commission within seven days for publishing false, fabricated, baseless and politically ill-motivated news.
Police today asked the government to shut down 84 porn websites. Assistant Inspector General (AIG-Media) Mohammad Nazrul Islam sent a letter to the home secretary in this regard seeking necessary steps through the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC).
The Bangladesh Telecom-munications Regulatory Commission has blocked 113,880 SIMs of different phone operators for using illegal call termination. Of the total number, 46,032 SIMs are of Banglalink, 30,152 of Warid, 22,140 of Grameenphone, 5,750 of AKTel, 532 of CityCell and 9,274 of Ranks Tel, according to a BTRC press release.
BTRC unveiled five state-of-the-art crime tracking vehicles in the city on Thursday, with technology to trace the positions of stolen cars and to monitor mobile phone crimes and illegal VoIP operations.
The Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission has finalised regulations for 3G network licences, BTRC chairman Zia Ahmed said Wednesday. "BTRC will soon invite applications from aspiring companies," Ahmed said at the unveiling of a new logo of a telecom company in the city.
Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) earned Taka 6,791 crore as revenue in the last eight years. Of the amount, the BTRC deposited Taka 6,702 crore to the government exchequer after excluding its expenditure, BTRC sources told the media.
UNB: The finance minister, AMA Muhith, Tuesday criticised the Bangladesh Telecommunications Regulatory Commission for its failure to play the role of facilitator in providing the required services to the entrepreneurs of the telecommunications sector.
BTRC announced Thursday the cost of internet bandwidth for operators will be slashed by 33 percent, in a move designed to stimulate the telecoms sector throughout the country.
Mobile operators added only 0.28 million customers to their networks in May, recording a 26 percent lower growth rate than in April 2009.
