BTTB internet service

By Dr. Rezaul Kareem, MD Associate Professor, Paediatrics College Road, Chittagong
15 February 2005, 18:00 PM
Bangladesh Telephone & Telegraph Board (BTTB) has been providing internet service to the subscribers since a long time. Unfortunately, the BTTB internet usage rate is much higher than the private internet providers. Any support if needed from BTTB is not prompt as well. If any subscribers forget their log in or web mail password there is no way to retrieve the password using the security question & answer. In such cases a subscriber has to call the BTTB support personnel for help. Everybody in this country knows very well what would be the response from that concerned support personnel in such a case. It is very much awkward not to have the provisions of retrieving the password by the subscribers themselves. There is also anomaly even while paying internet bills. It has been mentioned in the internet bills that "payable to City Bank only, if not available, payable to any bank where telephone bills are collected".

I am an user from Chitagong area. I reside at College Road, Chawk Bazar . There is no branch of City Bank in this locality. So I went to the Sonali Bank at Chawk Bazar to pay the internet bills recently where telephone bills are collected. They not only refused to accept the bills at their branch, but rather passed some filthy comments. Then I went to the City Bank, Anderkilla branch, where I got a more or less similar response. They asked me to go to City Bank, Agrabad branch, to deposit the bills. A trip to Agrabad, far away from Chawk Bazar, costs a considerable amount of taxi fair. I would like to request the BTTB authorities to look into the matter so that we can pay internet bills in a nearby bank without trouble.

I would further like to request them to make provisions so that subscribers themselves could retrieve their password if it is forgotten like other private internet service providers. I also appeal to them to lessen the internet usage rate in accordance with the rates of other private internet providers.