The posts and telecommunications ministry has selected Mujibur Rahman, general manager of the Bangladesh Telegraph and Telephone Board, as managing director of the Teletalk Bangladesh Limited, a state-owned mobile phone operator.

Mujibur, now serving as general manager (transmission) of the state-owned land phone operator BTTB, has been selected for the MD post of Teletalk.

Official sources said the telecoms ministry would sent the name of Mujibur Rahman to the next board meeting of Teletalk for approval.

Teletalk has been running without a full-time managing director as its first managing director, Mohammad Obaidullah, went on retirement in December 2006. Since then, the Teletalk was running its day-to-day works and expanding network without MD.

Officials of the Telecom Ministry said after Obaidullah’s retirement, a search committee headed by a teacher of the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology was formed to find a suitable person for the post of managing director of Teletalk.

The committee recommended the names of three persons to the ministry for selecting one of them as Teletalk’s MD. But the government did not choose any of them and decided to invite fresh applications for the post.

Teletalk launched its commercial operation in March 2005 and manages to get around 10 lakh subscribers till February last.