Washington - Siemens Bangladesh, a subsidiary of German corporate giant Siemens AG, has agreed to pay a 500,000-dollar criminal fine to the United States to help settle a global bribery case, US officials said Monday.
Grameenphone Ltd, the country’s leading cell phone operator, has added almost one million new subscribers in the third quarter of 2009, pushing up the total number of subscribers close to 22 million.
Grameenphone on Monday introduced a handset branded GP, the first time any operator has brought its own handset to the market.
The parents of a rape victim in Faridpur yesterday demanded justice after two men repeatedly raped their 14-year old daughter, recorded the incidents on a mobile phone and later uploaded the video footage on the internet. They also printed the footage on CDs and sold it in the local markets.
Mobile phone service operator Grameen-phone Ltd posted a 10 per cent growth in revenue reaching to Tk 1,628 crore in the second quarter of 2009 compared to Tk 1,477 crore in the same quarter of last year.
The cell phone subscriber growth rate of all the service providers came down to mere 4.36 per cent to reach 46.69 million in the first six months of the year, the lowest since 2003.
Mobile phone operators have decided to suspend business with private fixed-phone (PSTN) operators from Wednesday—due to outstanding fees amounting to Tk 48 crore, says AMTOB—a move that will affect some 600,000 phone users.
Bangladesh Postal Department has taken steps to introduce mobile money order service in the country's post offices for reaching money to the clients within an hour.
A parliamentary body yesterday recommended that the government reduce the proposed import tax on different commodities including second-hand cars of up to 2,000cc, cellphone sets and raw materials for furniture.
Four fiscal years ago in (2005-2006) budget when for the first time tax was imposed on mobile sets then there were 31 lakh 68 thousand 783 legal sets in the country. In the following year import of sets almost doubled.
