T and T mobile phone

By M. Zakir Hossain Khan, Department of Economics, North South University
23 April 2004, 18:00 PM
The general people are happy to know that the decision to distribute the T and T Mobile is becoming a reality, which might end several ongoing ambiguities. If the government can really distribute the much-expected T and T mobile efficiently then, undoubtedly, that will be a nice job; after all the fair distribution is an issue of commitment of the government. Since the supply of the T and T mobile is a burning issue against high demand its proper distribution is really challenging.

If the government is really desperate to restore its public image then there is on opportunity. The following issues must be taken into consideration:

T and T department as well as the Ministry concerned should avoid to maintain any quotas, the interest group's intervention and influences and after all the unethical intervention of T and T administration. Government can avoid those hassles if they adopt the lottery system among the applicants like the ongoing different lottery systems for distribution. In this way, the government can avoid the hassles and of free from any controversial acts that ultimately affects the popularity of the government.

If the government feel then they can reserve a few number of mobiles for their high officials but that would be not more than one for each. In this case, this reserved group must be out of lottery system and the government have to distribute all the rest of declared number (0.25 Million) of mobiles. This will help limit the scope of earning extra money by the notorious groups through creating artificial demand since it is almost impossible for the general people to know the exact number of mobile phones those lying for sale.

The price of the mobile set as well as the call charge would be competitive or fair so that the price can be within reach of the low income group so that they can use this mobile set to their benefit. After all now a days, as a service provider business the Fax and Telephone business is growing rapidly. That is why, this T and T mobile set might be the poverty reducing or income increasing effective instrument to money of the respective T and T mobile lottery winners.

The present government has done different promising works to strengthen and to ease both the communication system -- the transport as well as web based technologies -- but due to few inefficiencies or lack of professionalism the popularity couldn't be increased enormously or in some extent faces a declining trend. In market, the limited number of companies have created unwritten cartel through unfair means or bribing the respective officials, meddle men and leaders -- this is largely discussed among people. That is why, people expect that the government should be more cautious about fair price as well as fair distribution. We hope to see at least certain level of commitment and positive thinking from the government in future on this issue as well as all other issues.