Muhammad Zahidul Islam

A big policy shift in mobile handset assembling within a year has created an ominous air of uncertainty among companies that have already invested hundreds of crore taka in setting up assembling plants in the country recently.

The government plans following in Europe's footsteps to tap digital marketing's popularity, with Finance Minister AMA Muhith yesterday proposing introducing provisions on taxing earnings of networking tech giants such as Facebook, Google and Youtube.

Customer will have to pay more for products and service bought from one's mobile phone as the government yesterday introduced a 5 percent value-added tax on those from next fiscal year and also raised the surcharge on handset imports.

Internet users are likely to get a boost tomorrow as possibilities are there for the finance minister to slash the value-added tax on

E-commerce players are witnessing a surge in orders on the occasion of Eid-ul-Fitr and the FIFA World Cup, both of which are less than two weeks away.

The government had promised to digitalise all of its services to ensure e-governance by 2014 and Finance Minister AMA Muhith also reiterated it on several occasions in the past in his budget speeches.

Smartphone sales fell 8 percent year-on-year to 17.22 lakh units in the first quarter this year thanks to a drastic fall in import of low-

Television sellers are expecting about 500,000 more unit sales on the occasion of the 2018 FIFA World Cup and Eid-ul Fitr, amounting to almost half of the country's total annual consumption this year. Top TV brands said roughly seven to eight hundred thousand television units are sold in the market annually, with a 30 percent growth this year because of the upcoming football mega show.

Local airlines are expecting a boom in business during Eid vacations as an increasing number of people are flying home because of the heavy traffic congestions on the highways.

Once a spirited mobile operator, Banglalink is progressively becoming a bit-part player, with its revenues declining for the seventh

The telecom regulator has so far found 15 parties interested in running Bangladesh's telecom tower business, which is more than triple the number of licences up for grabs.

Bangladesh’s flagship venture Bangabandhu-1 satellite will be launched into orbit today. The satellite will be carried by a SpaceX Falcon-9 rocket and the launch will be streamed live at US local time 4:12pm to 6:22pm from SpaceX launch station in Florida.

Digital payment on e-service platforms are growing at breakneck speed in recent times.

Although the Bangabandhu-1 is technically well positioned in Florida's Cape Canaveral for its launch into orbit, the two ground stations in Gazipur and Rangamati are not yet ready to offer services.

Bangladesh is on the way to get five more hi-tech parks as top officials of the Bangladesh Hi-Tech Park Authority and the World Bank sit in Cox's Bazar today to negotiate an estimated $122 million fund.

The telecom regulator plans to set up a separate monitoring centre for about Tk 15 crore as part of its efforts to improve the quality of

Mobile phone subscribers will have to wait around three more months to be able to switch operators every 90 days while retaining

Bangladesh, along with Pakistan, has the lowest level of mobile internet penetration in the Asia Pacific region, according to a report of

The BTRC is finalising a new set of regulations under which the telecom and internet service providers will have to pay the penalty for

The government has moved to fix a flat call rate for mobile phone operators to eliminate the existing off-net and on-net charge gap