Mobile business

By AHM Rezaul Karim, Lecturer, Dept. of CSE, Asian University of Bangladesh
12 February 2004, 18:00 PM
No doubt Bangladesh is a new and emerging region for mobile business. Many people are still quite fascinated with the idea of being an owner of a mobile phone, without considering the quality of service. And mobile phone companies are taking this chance.

They are attracting people with colourful advertisements. And general people are convinced. For example: three taka per min from 12:00 at night to 8:00am. Now the question is, who is going to call after midnight?

It has become virtually impossible to reach numbers that are not under the same provider, the same company I mean. Sometimes it has been experienced that even when no call is made, money is being deducted from the account and you cannot have a satisfactory answer by calling the help line.

I have hardly met anybody who has a mobile and is satisfied with the service of his company.

I hope the authorities concerned will pay attention to this matter.