Friday, October 18, 2024

Operators of PSTN fight uneven battle

The absence of competitive tariffs and licences for multiple revenue schemes hinders the level-playing field of the privately owned public switched telephone network (PSTN)-commonly known as fixed land phone operators, who have already become pawn in the country’s telecom chess-board. The telecom ministry and the Bangladesh Telecommuni-cation Regulatory Commission (BTRC) have recently