Tagged “Rural internet”

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

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…

13 Mar 2022

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…

27 Feb 2022