National Internet Exchange to cut int\u2019l charges for ISPs<\/strong>
\nThe Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission has recently sought telecom ministry approval for establishing National Internet Exchange to route the local internet traffic within the country.\u00a0NIX, a consortium of two or more internet service providers, will be a passing point of internet traffic within the country.\u00a0Two companies, BDIX and Novocom, submitted applications for establishing NIX which were forwarded to telecom ministry last week, BTRC officials said.
\nThe initiative is a part of reducing the cost component of the internet service other than the bandwidth, they said.
\n\u2018The government in several phases reduced the internet bandwidth price but the end-users did not get the benefit as the operators claim that other cost component prices remain high,\u2019 a BTRC official told New Age.
\nHe also said it would reduce the use of international bandwidth and interconnection charges for the ISPs.
\n\u2018For example, presently when you send an email from Gulshan to Motijheel it passes through the international gateway and again returns to the country\u2019s domain. When we will route this email through NIX the email will not require to go via international server which will reduce the cost for service providers,\u2019 he said.
\nThe BTRC had formulated the guideline for NIX in 2010 but failed to issue any licence as none showed interest.
\nAn applicant must have to be certified by at least 10 licensed ISPs that they have peering connectivity with the applicant, BTRC officials said.
\nAt least two licensed ISPs can apply for the NIX by forming a separate joint venture, they said.
\nThe officials also said the license fee would be Tk 10,000 and the annual fee would be Tk 5,000.<\/p>\n

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