The Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission on Sunday said that an International Gateway service operator can serve maximum 35 VOIP Service Providers at a time. The BTRC in a directive issued on the day said that the IGW operators can select 20 VSP operators of their own choice and the rest of the 15 will be ... Read more
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Mobile number portability guideline okayed
The Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission on Monday approved the directives on Mobile Number Portability to allow subscribers switching their operators without changing their numbers. The BTRC will issue a directive to the mobile companies soon, said commission officials. The telecom regulator recently designed the key features
BTRC to introduce type-based import of mobile handsets
The Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission has taken a move to introduce type-based approval for importing mobile handsets. The BTRC formed a six-member committee last week to draft a regulation for changing the existing policy for issuing the no objection certificate for mobile handset import.
BTRC to appoint 2 individuals as 5 firms rejected
The Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission will appoint two individuals as consultants for conducting the 3G auction management as the five firms which applied for the consultant job failed to match commission’s criteria as per tender, said BTRC officials. The five companies applied for the job after the commission
BTRC asks Robi to stop G Win promotional campaign
The Bangladesh Telecommunication regulatory Commission on Tuesday asked mobile phone operator Robi to stop immediately one of its promotional campaigns that offered holiday trips and internet television as prizes. The BTRC in a show-cause notice served on
BTRC sits with mobile cos on compliance today
The Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission sits with the mobile phone operators today about the compliance of different promotional packages offered by the companies. The BTRC move came after the commission had found some gross violations of promotional offers by some operators recently.
BTRC to serve show-cause notice on Robi about promotional package
Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission will serve a show-cause notice on mobile phone operator Robi for violating rules in a recent promotional campaign, said the commission officials. The Robi in a recent promotional offer, Ghachang Talk More, offered its subscribers holiday trip for couple and 46 inch Samsung Smart Internet TV on the basis
BTRC cuts annual spectrum fee in amended 3G guideline
The Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission on Monday amended the 3G mobile service guideline reducing the annual spectrum charge for operators which will win the 3G licences. According to the BTRC amendments to
BTRC extends tender submission deadline
The Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission has extended the tender submission deadline to April 15 for the international firms for managing 3G auction. A BTRC notice on Tuesday said all other provisions of the tender offer would remain the same. The previous deadline for the interested parties
BTRC relaxes payment rules for IGW, ICX operators
The Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission has relaxed the revenue sharing and licensing fees provisions for IGW and ICX operators. According to the amendment to IGW and ICX licence guideline, the operators will get more time to deposit the revenue sharing money and licensing fees than
BTRC to bring int’l calls on single platform
Asks IGW operators to form clearing house for better monitoring The Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Authority has directed the international gateway operators to form a clearing house in a bid to curb illegal international call termination and unhealthy competition among the service providers. The BTRC in a directive asked the IGW operators to from the central platform ... Read more
Make VAS prices clear to customers
Telecom regulator asks mobile operators The telecom regulator has asked mobile operators to inform customers about the regular tariff of their SMS-based value added services when the promotional period of a particular service ends. The regulator also directed the operators to let the customers choose whether they want to continue receiving the service at the ... Read more
BTRC seeks opinion on draft consumer protection guideline
Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission on Thursday sought public opinion on draft National Telecommunication Consumer Protection Guideline to ensure that the consumers’ privacy is being protected and the operators are maintaining commercial ethics. The commission has made the draft public and people can submit their suggestions
BTRC to go tough on mobile phone operators
Bill Shocks After Promotional Offers BTRC to go tough on mobile phone operators The Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission is likely to go tough on the mobile phone operators as many subscribers are facing bill shocks after availing themselves of different promotional or campaign offers. BTRC officials said the commission would issue a directive to the ... Read more
Unregistered SIMS banned from Friday
Mobile operators will not be able to sell pre-activated connections from Friday as the telecom regulator introduced a raft of measures to tighten the registration process to fight crimes committed using cellphones. Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) said mobile operators would have to stop purchase and sales of all kinds of pre-activated SIM (subscriber identity ... Read more
BTRC tightens SIM registration procedure
Bangladesh Telecommunications Regulatory Commission has issued detail procedure for selling of mobile connections by the retailers after October 12 when the mobile operators will not be allowed to sell pre-activated connections. The BTRC in a notice on Thursday asked the mobile operators to complete all of their
Draft BTRC orders eye slashed P1 internet rate
Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission has drafted a host of orders for mobile operators to give better services to subscribers including reduced rate for ‘pay as you go’ or P1 internet package. The commission on Thursday posted the draft on its web site and sought public opinion by October 10. As per the draft orders, the ... Read more
BTRC serves show-cause notices on GP, Banglalink
Failure to launch 10-second pulse BTRC serves show-cause notices on GP, Banglalink Asks them to refund additional charge to subscribers The telecom regulator on Thursday served show-cause notices on Grameenphone and Banglalink for failing to launch 10-second pulse in each call and flat tariff rate by September 15 and asked them to refund the additional ... Read more
SIM cards to be regulated
The telecom regulator has decided to come down heavily on the sale of subscriber identity module (SIM) cards to curb illegal voice over internet protocol (VoIP) operations, and to prevent crimes from being committed with the help of mobile phones, sources said. The
GP, Banglalink fail to meet BTRC deadline
10-Second Pulse GP, Banglalink fail to meet BTRC deadline Two leading mobile phone operators failed to implement the directive of telecom regulators to introduce 10-second pulse on each mobile call within the latest deadline that ended on Saturday. Four other companies also failed to introduce flat call rate or same rate for every minute of ... Read more