Muhammad Zahidul Islam

The telecom and ICT sectors face a setback following the Gulshan terror attack as a major international event which was scheduled to

Mobile entertainment will get a boost this Eid as several music albums, music videos and other entertainment pieces will be released ahead of the biggest religious festival for Muslims.

Grameenphone recently launched an aggregated e-commerce platform --Kidorkar -- aiming to bring all the e-

The volume of online Eid shopping has more than doubled this year compared to the previous year's, with many opting to buy products online to avoid nagging traffic jam and mad rush at shopping malls. More than 20,000 purchases a day are being made on the country's e-commerce market during this Ramadan against 10,000 last year, according to market insiders.

State-owned carrier Teletalk's failure to kill around 22 lakh unregistered connections is allowing a huge volume of illegal international calls to be made, depriving the government of revenue.

The 3G technology is not robust enough to handle all aspects of digitisation and hence the emergence of fourth generation of mobile telecom technology such as the LTE, said a top official of Huawei.

The National Board of Revenue's total collections from the telecom sector is set to drop about 10 percent year-on-

Mobile operator Grameenphone has provided internet services to Sonali Bank violating rules, the telecom regulator said yesterday.

The government has now turned its attention to verifying the details on mobile financial service accounts after the

The proposed budget for the upcoming fiscal year increases investment in digitising government services by 36.01 percent year on year.

The cost of using a mobile phone would go up by more than two percent as the proposed budget looks to hike the supplementary duty on SIM usage.

Cybersecurity equipment will see a 10 percentage point cutback in import duty in fiscal 2016-17 -- a development most definitely instigated by the recent incidents of cyber attacks on the country's financial system.

India's move to launch a “Saarc satellite” has put Bangladesh in a dilemma, as the Indian initiative may reduce business opportunities of Bangabandhu-1 satellite, now in the making.

Mobile operator Robi's net profit dropped 57.17 percent year-on-year to Tk 39.7 crore in the January-March period, the lowest in 11 quarters, as a result of sharp competition and a slowdown for biometric SIM registration.

Mobile service providers have started the process to block more than two and half crore active mobile subscriptions as of zero hour today, for the users' failure to complete biometric re-registration as per government decree.

Grameenphone customers in nine border districts in the north have been facing frequent call drops for the last two

The cyclone Roanu that hit Bangladesh on Saturday disrupted telecom services in the coastal areas, particularly cellular services, as many of the transmission centres of mobile operators were down due to a power crisis.

Telecom operators added 10.68 lakh new mobile connections to their networks in April for the first time in four

Bangladesh telecom regulator has blocked Threema and Wickr, two highly secured messaging services, along with some blog and Facebook links after receiving requests from intelligence agencies that claimed they spread atheism and criticise Islam.

Robi's parent company Axiata Group has urged regulators to reverse their recommendation for fees and charges of about Tk 700 crore for the merger with Airtel to go ahead.