Monday, December 23, 2024

3G, VAS guidelines not friendly for business: Orascom CEO

The visiting Orascom Telecom chief executive officer Ahmed Abou Doma on Saturday said that the draft 3G licensing and value added-service guidelines ‘will put many foreign investments off the country.’ Abou Doma, addressing a press conference at the Westin hotel in the capital, also asked the regulator and the government to reach a consensus with ... Read more

Banglalink to pay Tk 1,980cr for licence renewal

Orascom Telecom Holding said its Bangladeshi subsidiary Banglalink will pay about Tk 1,980 crore ($26.3 crore) over the next three years as spectrum and licence renewal fees. Banglalink, the country’s second largest mobile phone operator with 21.62 million subscribers, has received the final 2G (second generation) licence renewal guidelines, Orascom said