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  Little change in auditor’s assessment of GP dues

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 01:52am on November 21, 2018

  Government-appointed auditor Toha Khan Zaman & Co has lowered the government’s claim on leading mobile phone operator Grameenphone by only Tk 5.16 crore, leaving the previous...

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  GP likely to face additional obligations as SMP

  HM Murtuza | Updated at 12:00am on November 20, 2018

  Leading mobile phone operator Grameenphone is likely to face a set of fresh regulations in operating its business in the country as the entity would...

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  Telcos could face up to Tk 100cr fine for service quality slips

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 12:00am on November 19, 2018

  The newly enacted quality of service regulations for the telecommunications sector have empowered Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission to impose up to Tk 100 crore in administrative...

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  BTRC endorses plan to install real-time monitoring system

  HM Murtuza | Updated at 12:00am on November 18, 2018

  Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission has decided to set up an integrated telecom monitoring system in its office for tightening of monitoring over mobile phone operators’...

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  Mobile handset testing lab in the offing

  HM Murtuza | Updated at 12:00am on November 17, 2018

  Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission has initiated a move to set up a full-fledged mobile handset testing laboratory in the country with a view to encouraging...

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  BTRC body for revoking Bangla Phone’s IIG licence

  HM Murtuza | Updated at 12:00am on November 15, 2018

  A Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission committee has recommended that the international internet gateway (IIG) licence of Bangla Phone Limited should be revoked as the company...

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  Drugmaking arm of Samsung fined for $4 billion accounts breach

  Agence France-Presse . Seoul | Updated at 12:00am on November 15, 2018

  The pharmaceutical arm of giant South Korean conglomerate Samsung was fined Wednesday for alleged accounting breaches amounting to nearly $4 billion, and had dealings in...

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  After conquering world, smartphone faces uncertain future

  Agence France-Presse . Washington | Updated at 12:00am on November 14, 2018

  What is next for the smartphone, which has become the hottest-selling consumer device around the world in just over a decade?....

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  Muhith blasts BTRC for loan repayment failure

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 12:00am on November 13, 2018

  Finance minister AMA Muhith has expressed disappointment with the state-owned telecommunication commission as it failed to service debt it had taken from Hongkong and Shanghai...

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  Local TV channels don’t need earth station for Bangabandhu-I’s service

  Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha . Dhaka | Updated at 12:00am on November 11, 2018

  Local television (TV) channels would not require installing any earth station to get service from country’s first geostationary communication satellite Bangabandhu-I.‘We would introduce alternative service...