Bangladesh trails behind 14 low, middle income countries in internet usage gender gap
When it comes to accessing digital services, Bangladeshi women are lagging way behind men with just 16 per cent having access to the internet compared with 33 per cent of the opposite gender, according to a GSMA report published recently.
30 July 2020, 18:00 PM
Fair Group announces car assembly tie-up with Hyundai
Fair Technology yesterday announced it has entered into an exclusive partnership with South Korean automotive manufacturer Hyundai Motors to set up a car assembly plant in Bangladesh within the second half of next year.
25 July 2020, 18:00 PM
To tighten purse strings, software maker moves office to rural backwater
Most companies have been put in harm’s way because of the ongoing pandemic, but a local software and mobile application developer stands to benefit from the new normal.
25 July 2020, 18:00 PM
Digital Bangladesh held back by service delivery bottlenecks: Robi CEO
There is a very big gap between the reality and vision declared by the government on digitalisation as a huge number of bottlenecks lie behind service delivery processes, said a top executive of a Bangladeshi mobile carrier yesterday.
21 July 2020, 18:00 PM
Bangladesh lags behind Asia Pacific peers in telecom services: GSMA
In the digital age, Bangladesh’s mobile telecom market is still dominated by the second generation (2G) services while scenarios in other Asia Pacific countries are quite different and are predominated by 4G services, according to a GSMA report published on Monday.
8 July 2020, 18:00 PM
A whopping 46 lakh mobile connections vanished amid pandemic
Mobile phone operators are struggling to retain their active subscribers despite offering lucrative packages, including free minutes, SMS and extra data, as the coronavirus-induced economic downturn has affected all sectors and curtailed people’s income.
6 July 2020, 18:00 PM
First SMP restrictions come into effect after nine years
Today will be the first time a restriction will come into effect on Grameenphone since the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) started working on Significant Market Power (SMP) guidelines nine years back to enhance competition and bring balance to the market.
30 June 2020, 18:00 PM
Japan, the land of rising promise for Bangladesh’s ICT sector
Japan -- ever at the forefront of science and technology thanks to its culture of intensive mathematics education and reverence for engineers.
29 June 2020, 18:00 PM
Grameenphone can’t stop raking in profits
Grameenphone’s net profits soared 25.8 per cent year-on-year to Tk 1,070 crore in the first quarter of the year driven by data revenue and cost-efficient programmes despite operating an increasingly challenging environment.
22 April 2020, 18:00 PM
GP seeks extra spectrum at discounted price
Grameenphone has sought additional spectrum for an interim period to offer better internet services as their network has become busier for a surge in data usage amid the coronavirus-induced lockdown.
21 April 2020, 18:00 PM
Companies move shareholder meetings online amid shutdown
In a first for Bangladesh, listed companies are using virtual platforms to hold annual general meetings as part of their business continuity plans while avoiding mass gatherings and maintain social distancing in the face of coronavirus outbreak in the country.
21 April 2020, 18:00 PM
Digitalisation comes to bereft farmers’ rescue
The government is set to initiate a short code to help farmers sell their produce if they can’t find buyers locally, much to the relief of growers confronting a broken supply chain.
20 April 2020, 18:00 PM
Nagad to fall in line finally
Nagad, a mobile financial service provider of the Bangladesh Post Office and a private entity, has received an interim licence from the Bangladesh Bank, as part of its push towards digital money amid the pandemic.
19 April 2020, 18:00 PM
Virtual healthcare, once a hard sell, can’t keep up with demand now
Virtual healthcare service has gained traction in Bangladesh in the last few weeks as senior consultants and professors have put their private practice on hold while people are less inclined to visit hospitals and clinics to cut the risk of contracting the deadly coronavirus.
16 April 2020, 18:00 PM
Mobile internet slowest in Bangladesh among 42 countries
Mobile internet speed is slowing down in Bangladesh amid the coronavirus pandemic, according to an international study, which has found download speed in the country is the lowest among 42 markets it has covered.
13 April 2020, 18:00 PM
‘Coronavirus is guiding us towards some sort of innovation’
Local companies have started producing sophisticated medical devices and much-needed personal protective equipment (PPE), a development that comes as a sigh of relief amid the mounting fear of coronavirus epidemic that has so far claimed 34 lives in Bangladesh.
12 April 2020, 18:00 PM
Financial inclusion agenda gets a lift
The central bank’s order to open bank or mobile financial service (MFS) accounts for disbursing the salaries of employees of export-oriented factories from the government’s Tk 5,000 crore stimulus package will give a leg up to the digitalisation and financial inclusion agenda, experts said.
8 April 2020, 18:00 PM
The promising software industry now teetering
Just a few months ago, Skylark Soft, a software development company for technology used in the garment industry, maintained accounts with 50 top factories.
6 April 2020, 18:00 PM
Telcos seek free spectrum
Mobile phone operators have asked the telecom regulator to allocate some spectrum for free for the time being, reasoning that their network had become busier for a surge in data use amid the novel coronavirus-induced ongoing lockdown.
4 April 2020, 18:00 PM
Another global player departs Bangladesh
Japan’s largest mobile firm NTT DoCoMo is set to leave Bangladesh by selling its entire stake in Robi Axiata to Bharti International, raising questions about the country’s telecom policies and regulatory regime.
1 April 2020, 18:00 PM
Homegrown ventilator goes on clinical testing next week
The Military Institute of Science and Technology (MIST), an engineering university run by the Bangladesh Armed Forces, has designed a ventilator, in the most positive development for the nation panicking from the coronavirus pandemic.
31 March 2020, 18:00 PM
Running out of ventilators is a real possibility. And Walton comes to rescue.
For weeks now, the nation has been obsessed with one set of numbers: how many confirmed cases of coronavirus and how many have died?
30 March 2020, 18:00 PM
Taming coronavirus rampage: Mobile users puzzled by govt SMS to gather health-related info
Mobile operators are receiving a barrage of questions from users after sending them text messages seeking information on their health condition as part of a government plan to draw a digital map to track coronavirus cases and detect potential risk zones.
29 March 2020, 18:00 PM
Govt drawing on big data analytics to contain pandemic
The government has initiated a process to draw a digital map to track coronavirus cases and find out areas susceptible to contamination by using mobile users’ information -- a move that may help portray the real picture of a possible outbreak.
28 March 2020, 18:00 PM
Movement control order making lives tricky for mobile and internet service providers
Mobile operators’ balance recharge has dipped 20 per cent since Thursday as the point-of-sales outlets cannot open for government’s movement control order from March 26 to April 4, which will ultimately push the customers out-of-service over next few days.
28 March 2020, 18:00 PM
BASIS demands Tk 660cr grant, Tk 500cr loan
The Bangladesh Association of Software and Information Services (BASIS) is demanding a Tk 660-crore grant from the government to tide member companies over through the next six months for the pandemic-induced work orders cancellations and decline in service requests.
26 March 2020, 18:00 PM
Internet traffic surges as people stay home
As the spreading coronavirus has largely paralysed public movement and social life, internet usage has shot up 15 per cent in Bangladesh as people are increasingly relying on digital life for communication, work and entertainment to escape the doom and gloom brought on by the novel virus.
24 March 2020, 18:00 PM
Online grocery delivery pushed to breaking point
Online ventures that run grocery businesses have no time to even take a breather amidst the deluge of orders brought on by the coronavirus pandemic that calls for social distancing and avoiding large gatherings.
22 March 2020, 18:00 PM