Singapore-based telecom giant SingTel has pulled back from its bid to use 2.5Gb bandwidth from Bangladesh because of a lengthy procurement process, a persistent obstacle to lending excess bandwidth to international operators.
BSS: The high-level committee to review three state-owned telephone companies has recommended merger of the Bangladesh Telecommunications Company Limited and Bangladesh Submarine Cable Company Limited, keeping TeleTalk as a government subsidiary.
The Bangladesh Telegraph and Telephone Board and the Bangladesh Submarine Cable Company Limited are going to work as separate companies from July 1, officials said on Sunday.
The country's telecommunication and internet links were once again disrupted from Sunday night for about eight hours as miscreants snapped Dhaka-Cox's Bazar optical fibre line that links the nation to the submarine cable system.
২২ মার্চ রাত ২টা থেকে ভোর ৫টা পর্যন্ত কক্সবাজার অপটিকাল ফাইবারে জরুরি রক্ষণাবেক্ষণ কাজ চলবে। এ তিন ঘণ্টা সাবমেরিন কেবলের মাধ্যমে আন্তর্জাতিক টেলিযোগ
The telephone board has decided not to invest in upgrading the capacity of the SEA-ME-WE-4 submarine cable system, discouraged by poor use of the present bandwidth capacity of the cable that connects Bangladesh with international telecoms system.
