Muhammad Zahidul Islam

A joint venture of Trust Bank and Malaysia’s Axiata Group is set to roll out a new kind of mobile financial service in Bangladesh after it received a no-objection certificate from the central bank yesterday.

Bangladesh’s steady higher economic growth is sending strong messages to foreign investors that the country is a place to invest in and do business in various areas, including the service sector, said an angel investor of local technology company Shohoz.

Mistakenly changing taka values to dollars, the telecom regulator gave the High Court incorrect information about digital advertisement spending on different social media by three mobile operators, The Daily Star has found.

Only 6 percent of smartphone users in Bangladesh are regularly making purchases from online shops, trailing far behind those in neighbouring India and Pakistan, found a study of research platform GSMA Intelligence.

Summit Communication plans to raise Tk 100 crore from the local market by issuing a Shariah-based non-convertible Mudaraba bond to expand its fibre optic cable network up to the remotest part of the country.

Foreign donations through the NGO Affairs Bureau soared 19.85 percent year-on-year to Tk 7,929.43 crore in fiscal 2018-19 on the back of rising humanitarian assistance for the Rohingyas.

Carnival Internet, a local internet service provider, has brought internet access to remote parts of the country, where people are hungry for internet but have next to no access, by way of WiFi Haat -- an inspired move that will help thousands of locals.

After successive drives in different hospitals, diagnostics and dispensaries by the Directorate of National Consumer Rights Protection (DNCRP), during which they had fined some top hospitals for charging higher than the government declared rate for dengue tests, the officials were not seen in the field in last three days.

The telecom regulator is set to issue two separate show cause notices to Grameenphone and Robi asking them to reply within 30 days why their licences will not be cancelled despite violating the licensing conditions by not paying the telecom regulator’s ‘dues’.

Online sales of sacrificial cows have been met with a setback this year for floods in northern parts of the country and the dengue

The government has decided to take a billion-dollar loan from Korean company LG U+ for expanding Teletalk’s network coverage and making the state-run operator’s infrastructure 5G compatible.

The telecom regulator has drafted a guideline on landing rights for broadcasting satellite services as the government looks to monetise the country’s lone satellite Bangabandhu-1.

The government is set to open up the satellite and undersea submarine cable business to the private sector as it looks to expand the capacity in preparation for a Digital Bangladesh.

The government is set to form a specialised firm to fund and nurture startups and ICT entrepreneurs under the Innovation Design and

The telecom regulator is set to lift the partial block on the bandwidth capacity of Grameenphone and Robi after the government

Chinese smartphone manufacturer Vivo is all set to roll out the first mobile assembly plant in Bangladesh with full foreign direct

Users of two leading mobile phone operators –- Grameenphone and Robi -- are recently experiencing poor quality internet service across the country as the telecom regulator reduced their bandwidth to realise its claimed dues of Tk 13,446 crore that was found in audits, which are being contested.

Bangladesh Post Office’s mobile financial service Nagad is seeking to take over the mobile phone top-up business in the country, which last year saw credit recharges of around Tk 26,000 crore.

Transactions through the mobile financial service platform hit a record Tk 42,236.23 crore in May as discounts offered by the major

Pathao, a ride-hailing company and one of the fastest growing tech startups in Asia, cut more than 50 percent of its workforce in the last two days as it struggles to raise funds amid waning popularity for its services.