Tagged “broadband”

An ISP in 403 upazilas is turning its bill-pay app into a marketplace — why broadband companies are unusually well placed to try this, and the one service that needs watching

Carnival has a monthly payment relationship with 450,000 rural households and a technician who has been inside their homes. That is the…

28 Aug 2025

Starlink switched on in Bangladesh for the first time — 220 Mbps at the investment summit, and the question nobody at the stall could answer

Visitors to the Bangladesh Investment Summit at the InterContinental scanned a QR code at the satellite company’s stall and got their first…

9 Apr 2025

Info-Sarkar 3 closes: fibre to 2,600 unions, 1.09 lakh government offices online, and a "10 crore high-speed users" claim examined

The five-year Bangladesh-China project that put optical fibre into union parishads ended on 22 November. What it built, why a Gaibandha ISP…

22 Nov 2022

A father and son built a broadband ISP in a Gaibandha village: Tk 20 vouchers, 25 hotspots and a server room by the paddy field

Sajedul Islam and his son Muntasir Mamun learned networking from YouTube, founded Safal Telecom in 2020, and now serve 100 homes, five…

16 Sep 2022