Bangladesh's 5G network rollout faces device shortage

Bangladesh enters the 5G era with promises of speed, low latency, and massive connectivity. While urban rollout faces infrastructure, cost, and device hurdles, 5G remains vital for smart cities, healthcare, startups, and the nation’s digital future.

Bangladesh has entered the 5G era with limited commercial switch-ons by Robi Axiata and Grameenphone.

5G technology makes its debut in Bangladesh after years of delays

Earlier, Robi launched its 5G network in select areas of Dhaka, Chattogram, and Sylhet

This marks the first-ever commercial 5G launch by a mobile operator in Bangladesh

Activities of Faiz Ahmad Taiyeb, special assistant to chief adviser, raise concerns over conflict of interest, executive overreach and violations of procurement rules

Bangladesh’s telecom system, long criticised for inefficiency and corruption, is undergoing a major overhaul under the proposed ‘Telecom Network and Licensing Reform Policy 2025’. 

bKash, the leading mobile financial service (MFS) provider in Bangladesh, has joined hands with Grameenphone and City Bank to make 4G and 5G enabled smartphones more affordable for their clients.

Is 5G merely a vanity, just another technology that offers nothing extraordinary? Or has it emerged as a central cog in transforming the digital space by resolving issues related to low speed and latency?

Centre For Development of Telematics (CDOT), the Indian government’s premier Telecom R&D Centre, and Indian Institute of Technology, Jodhpur today signed an agreement for “Automated Service Management in 5G and Beyond Networks Using AI”.

Nokia, a Finnish telecom gear maker recently said that it had signed a 5G patent cross-licensing deal with Oppo, a Chinese device maker company. The deal resolves patent litigation between the companies.

Indian scientists have developed an indigenous software technology that can detect and prevent attacks in the 5G telecom networks, as per a recent statement by India's Ministry of Science and Technology.

There are a few key areas that are likely to see significant activity and could potentially have a major impact on the tech industry.

Some of the world's biggest tech companies have told their employees to stop talking about technology and technical standards with counterparts at Huawei Technologies Co Ltd in response to the recent US blacklisting of the Chinese tech firm, according to people familiar with the matter.

China’s Huawei Technologies launched what it says the world’s first 5G communications hardware for the automotive industry, in a sign of its growing ambitions to become a key supplier to the sector for self-driving technology.

South Korea launches the world's first nationwide 5G mobile networks two days early, its top mobile carriers says, in a late-night scramble to be the first providers of the super-fast wireless technology.

Customers' appetite for data is expanding every year, compelling mobile operators to increase their capacity and invest huge amounts of money in it, said experts and representatives from mobile operators and vendors yesterday.

Fifth generation (5G) mobile technology will be rolled out by the state-owned mobile operator Teletalk in the country before any other telecom operators, Telecom Minister Mustafa Jabbar says.

They have no entrance pass for security or card to swipe through a reader. All they need is their smartphones connected to the fifth-generation network. They enter through a door with face recognition and immediately start working at reserved desks after connecting their phones on a docking pad to a cloud computing system. No desktops or heavy desktop computers and cables are needed with the 5G virtual desktop infrastructure system.