Muhammad Zahidul Islam

The government’s move to raise the mobile operators’ turnover tax to 2 percent from 0.75 percent from the new fiscal year will drive

At a time when the government should be encouraging virtual businesses, Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal has proposed 7.5 percent value-added tax on them in his budget for fiscal 2019-20, making their services dearer.

Mobile phone services are likely to become costlier from today due to increased taxes. The National Board of Revenue sent a regulatory order to the mobile carries to increase the supplementary duty (SD) to 10 percent from 5 from midnight yesterday.

Robi is planning to raise Tk 400 crore from the local market by issuing a Shariah-based security bond with the face value of each certificate being Tk 1 lakh.

Crores of mobile phone users can brace themselves for poorer network quality as the carriers and tower licence holders have failed to get on the same page seven months into the new arrangement.

Once a much-hyped breakthrough for internet communication, WiMax is now on its last legs in Bangladesh after two out of the three operators that deployed the wireless broadband technology turned off their switches.

Smartphone sales bounced back from a year-long rough patch in the first quarter of 2019 helped by a fall in prices of handsets after

Eid shopping through online platforms reached Tk 120 crore in the first three weeks of Ramadan thanks to the growing popularity of

The number of active user accounts in the mobile financial service industry declined 28.34 percent in the last four months because of

As much as 95 percent of the handsets sold in Bangladesh by the South Korean electronics giant Samsung are assembled in its plant in

The growing demand from rural parts of the country and unbearable traffic in the capital have turned out to be a boon for e-commerce sites ahead of Eid-ul-Fitr, with many recording 30 percent higher orders than last Eid.

The telecom regulator is yet to appoint auditors to conduct financial and technical inspection of Banglalink and Airtel’s system even though the formal process has started more than a year and a half ago due to irregularities within the institution itself. The Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC)

The Bangladesh Submarine Cable Company Ltd (BSCCL) has received proposals from two Singapore-based companies -- SingTel and SigMar -- to establish connection for the country’s third undersea cable.

Solving local problems using homegrown innovations will be key to pulling off major business successes in the digital industry, said a top e-ecommerce expert in the region.

All the local television stations are now ready to get on board the Bangabandhu Satellite – 1 -- one year after its launch.

When people can buy a mobile phone SIM for a few hundred taka tops, a gang with the help of unscrupulous employees of carriers has been selling easy-to-remember phone numbers for as much as Tk 3 lakh.

The financial industry in Bangladesh is increasingly embracing mobile application-based transaction -- a move that is gaining traction and holds the potential not only to make the country a cashless economy but also a card-less one.

Grameenphone subscribers’ minimum call rate is set to increase by 5 paisa a minute to Tk 0.50 as part of restrictions imposed on the operator for being declared a significant market power.

Grameenphone subscribers can brace themselves for higher charges thanks to a set of decisions taken at a telecom division meeting

Dhaka is set to get another ride-hailing option by the end of the month named Drivill that promises at least 10 percent lower fares