PRIME MINISTER SHEIKH HASINA HAS URGED PRIVATE MOBILE PHONE OPERATORS TO CUT INTERNET COST AT THE CONSUMER LEVEL TO POPULARISE ITS USE OF BANGLADESH COUNTRY

She noted the value cut would be profitable for the operators, too.“People can use web additional [if the costs area unit slashed] and it'll mean additional financial gain,” Hasina aforesaid at the inauguration of long ‘Internet Week’ at the Ganabhaban on Saturday.Software exporters’ association BASIS has unionised the ‘Internet Week’ in association with the ICT Division to expand the employment of web. personal mobile operator Grameenphone (GP) is aiding within the rendezvous.She aforesaid her government had reduced web costs to form it cheap for the folks.“We’ve brought down costs of 1MBPS information measure to Tk 625 from Tk seventy eight,000 in eight phases,” the prime minister aforesaid.“We urge the itinerant operators to chop the costs at the buyer level.”According to government information, there area unit concerning forty eight.34 million mobile web users in Bangla Desh. Some ninety seven per cent web subscribers use mobile web.Building a ‘digital Bangladesh’ was one among the Awami League’s key electoral pledges in 2008.The Bangla Desh Submarine Cable Company restricted (BSCCL) proclaimed a forty-one per cent price cutting for 1MBPS information measure to Tk 625, down from Tk one,068.But International web entry (IIG) operators and web Service suppliers (ISP) aforesaid end-users wouldn't be benefitted by the conditional price cutting.Hasina took a dig at the previous BNP-led government for rejecting free submarine cable affiliation and highlighted her government’s efforts for the growth of IT.She aforesaid her government opened the marketplace for personal mobile operators once one operator dominated the market and charged high decision rates.Turning to doctor business executive Rajeev Sethi, the prime minister aforesaid, “The solely issue I’d prefer to tell Grameenphone is that it's one among the primary personal itinerant corporations I gave permission to for doing business.“Nobody had the courageousness to open this market. There was one mobile company after we opened it (the itinerant market).”The prime minister on Saturday additionally sought-after associate degree finish to the black VoIP business.“It harms the country,” she said. “We got to beware of it.”The government on weekday proclaimed Tk a hundred,000 rewards for data on those running black VoIP operations.

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