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Call drops will fall this year, says the minister: what is behind them and what you can do now
With 190 MHz of new spectrum in operators' hands, Mustafa Jabbar expects dropped calls to fall by December. Why calls drop in the first…
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Data packs that last a year: BTRC forces "unlimited" and daily-cap bundles on the operators
From 31 May every operator must sell year-long data and monthly packs with a daily cap. The prices announced, what "unlimited" really…
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Elon Musk buys Twitter for $44 billion: why he wanted it and what he says he will change
Three weeks from a 9.2 per cent stake to owning the whole company at $54.20 a share. Free speech, an edit button, subscriptions and a…
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Freelancing 101: what it is, what it is not, and the five marketplaces that actually pay
Freelancing is a way of working, not a job title, and "outsourcing" is what your client does, not you. A plain-language primer from Prothom…
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Operators buy Tk 10,646 crore of spectrum: what 190 MHz means for your 4G, and for 5G
Grameenphone and Robi took 60 MHz each in the 2.6 GHz band, Banglalink 40 and Teletalk 30 in 2.3 GHz, all for 15 years. Why it should mean…
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Three weeks after the report, Madhupur's Garo freelancers get 4G, and throw a festival
Grameenphone's chief executive read the story about modems tied to trees, put a temporary tower in Gaira, and on 12 March the villages of…
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Modems hung from lychee trees: the Garo freelancers of Madhupur forest working on 2G
Around 350 young Garo people trained at Nokrek IT Institute earn dollars from villages ten kilometres inside Tangail's Madhupur forest…
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Every operator SMS must be in Bangla by June, minister orders; here is what stays in English
Launched on the eve of Ekushey, the BTRC programme has Banglalink at 95 per cent, Grameenphone 92, Teletalk 89 and Robi 85. OTPs, brand…
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63% of phones sold in Bangladesh last year were made here: 2.61 crore handsets from 14 factories
Fourteen local factories shipped 2.61 crore phones in 2021, 63 per cent of everything sold, and employ about 25,000 people, the telecom…