The cost of talking
As a pensioner, I looked forward to having a mobile phone when I heard the Finance Minister reduce the import duty from Tk 1500 to Tk 300; but in the next sentence he planned to recover the revenue loss by imposing a new tax on SIM cards (initialising a set). What he gave with one hand, he took away with the other! Not fair. The user is not the gainer in the budget, and the govt is not the loser!
A new point has come out. The CDMA telephone sets do not need SIM card. We are a talkative society, but the cost of 'betar' (wireless) talking is very high.
Give us the right to communicate at 'poverty' rate!
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