Wednesday, November 14th, 2007The country's Internet and overseas telecom services were once again disrupted for around 15 hours from early Tuesday night as criminals snapped optical fibre line near Cox's Bazar and Feni.Since installation of this line in 2006, this is the 22nd case of disruption and second in the running week. Just two days ago, the line was snapped for several hours.Bangladesh Telegraph and Telephone Board (BTTB) claims that this is the seventh case of "an act of sabotage" aimed at disrupting the country's international telecom and Internet activities.Experts restored the line at around 4:00pm.Sources said that miscreants snapped the ...
(read more) Monday, February 12th, 2007A seven-member technical committee is expected to recommend the government by February 15 how to award licences for the voice over internet protocol (VoIP) quickly by protecting national interest.The committee is also considering limiting the licences to Bangladeshi companies only for now to maximise financial gains for the country, sources said.A quick awarding of licences for VoIP operation has become urgent in the backdrop of the recent crackdown on the illegal internet telephony which has bogged down the cheap and easy international calling system.At the same time, however, in the absence of a common platform through which all VoIP calls ...
(read more) Sunday, January 28th, 2007Due to deliberate inaction of the immediate past alliance government in the matter of stopping illegal VoIP business, the overall annual earning of Bangladesh Telegraph and Telephone Board (BTTB) sharply dropped by Tk 267 crore during its five-year tenure, official data shows.While phone companies around the world are enjoying a steep business rise, the BTTB's annual earning from foreign calls dropped by Tk 135 crore in fiscal 2005-06 from that in 2001-02.All the while, the business of more than 100 illegal Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) expanded beyond control. Industry insiders say various political beneficiaries are running this business in ...
(read more) Saturday, January 27th, 2007Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) members seized Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) equipment worth about Tk 15 lakh raiding one more illegal business office at Jigatala in Dhanmondi early yesterday.Tipped off, Rab-2 raided the house of Rafiqul Islam alias Babul at around 1:30am. They held him and seized the VoIP equipment.The seized equipment include 65 tellular devices, 62 mobile SIM cards, one computer monitor and its CPU and 65 adapters, Rab officials said.Earlier on Thursday night, Rab intelligence unit busted the third floor of the four-storey Nur Villa at Badda in the capital and seized VoIP equipment worth over Tk ...
(read more) Thursday, January 25th, 2007The Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) seized Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) equipment worth around Tk 25 crore busting an unscrupulous phone service business at Azimpur in the capital yesterday.With yesterday's recovery, the Rab has busted eight unauthorised VoIP business centres -- seven in the capital and one in the port city of Chittagong -- since December 26. The total seized items would be worth several hundred crore taka, Rab officials said.Illegal VoIP operators use the equipment to generate or terminate overseas calls by first turning voice calls into data, routing it over the internet and then turning the data ...
(read more) Wednesday, January 24th, 2007Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) members arrested three people and seized a huge quantity of equipment used to run unauthorised voice over internet protocol (VoIP) business from an office at Purana Paltan in the capital on Monday.Members of Rab 2 arrested the owner of the office Mainul Islam Khan and two of its staff, Abdul Kuddus and Shohag, during an eight-hour long raid that ended at 10:00pm that night.The seized equipment includes computers, 228 SIM (subscriber identity module) cards of different cellular phone service operators, 42 telluler devices and many coils of internet cables. Rab officials said the estimated price ...
(read more) Saturday, November 25th, 2006bracNET, an affiliation of Brac, the world's largest non-government organisation, has recently launched e-Hut to give internet access to people in rural areas of Bangladesh.Through e-Hut the people living in the remote corners of the country will have access to the internet at an affordable price. While explaining the programme, bracNET officials said e-Hut is a one-stop shop of different types of digital services including internet browsing, basic computer training, photocopying, scanning, digital photo taking and lamination of documents and photos.Moreover, e-Huts are franchisees of bracNET and owned by local entrepreneurs, thus, it would facilitate young people to be self-reliant.Khalid ...
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