May 01, 2013

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Banglalink distributes recycled school bags

Banglalink has recently distributed recycled schoolbags among the students of Modern International School at Mohammedpur village at Chandnaish in Chittagong. Banglalink's Head of BTL and CSR Iftekhar Azam, Director of the school Ziauddin Adil, Director Rafiqul Islam, Director Ershaad Hasan Chowdhury, teacher Noton Dev Ray, school authority, and students were present at the bag distribution ceremony.

Impact Score: 60 [Kaler Kantho, daily sun, samakal, Amader Shomoy, Bhorer kagoj, News Today] 01 May 2013I

Model Mehazabein rules city skyline with billboard presence

Popular model and talented actress Mehazabein is now can be seen everywhere in Dhaka city as her new ad billboards are occupying every important section of the city. The actress was also seen earlier in Banglalink’s ad billboards.

Impact Score: 55

     

GP-Prothom Alo trust distributes tin among tornado victims

A joint trust set up by telecom operator Grameenphone and Bangla daily Prothom Alo recently distributed bundles of tins among the victims of the recent tornado in Brahmanbaria. A total of 100 families were provided with this aid.

Model Ishana stars in new GP TVC

Lux superstar and model Ishana has started work for a new TVC of Grameenphone. The talented model is playing the lead character on the TVC.

GP BPL: Sk Russel to face Sk Jamal

Sheikh Russel KC were looking forward to celebrating their maiden  title of Grameenphone Bangladesh Premier League when they take on former champions Sheikh Jamal DC in their penultimate round match at the Bangabandhu National Stadium scheduled to be held on Wednesday. Telecom operator Grameenphone is the title sponsor of the tourney.

[Daily Star, Sangram, Bonik Barta, Jugantor, Manobkantha, Amader Shomoy, Arhoniti Pratidin, Kaler Kantho, New Nation, Dhaka Tribune]

Robi signs deal with Mitali Food

Mobile phone operator Robi Axiata Limited signed an agreement with Mitali Food Industries Ltd., one of the largest food distributers & manufacturers based in Khulna region. The signing ceremony was held recently in Khulna regional office of Robi.

Teletalk 3G Entrepreneurship Festival at Chittagong

A three-day festival for new entrepreneurs, titled “Teletalk 3G Entrepreneurship Festival”, will be started from tomorrow at the Children Academy premise in Chittagong. Teletalk 3G is the title sponsor of the festival.

Telecom Industry

BTCL slashes bandwidth price by TK 3,200

The state-owned Bangladesh Telecommunications Company Limited has reduced monthly leased rental bandwidth price by Tk 3,200 aimed at providing cheaper internet services to its subscribers. SOM Kolimullah, managing director of BTCL said that the decision will be effective from April 1.

Mobile users inch towards 10cr subscribers

The number of active mobile phone users neared 10-crore mark again in March as six mobile operators added 12.78 lakh subscribers in the month shrugging off the shock in the consequence of tight SIM registration process. Among the operators, Banglalink added 73 thousand subscribers in March taking the total subscribers to 2.59 crore.

Irritating SMSs to subscribers

Frequent SMSs to subscribers about the operator’s various offers are creating utmost dissatisfaction among the users, a reader of the newspaper writes.serious about the matter and send texts considering its importance to subscribers, he suggests.

Bangladesh to join in SASEC Information Highway Program

Bangladesh is going to be connected with South Asia Sub-regional Economic Cooperation’s (SASEC) Information Highway program along with 4 other countries of SAARC. This connection will be established by the fiber optic cable which will allow its members to share information directly with each other. This infrastructure will increase the outsourcing service from our country, said the fellow of CPD Mr. Debopriyo Bhatyacharjee.

3G Auction: BTRC to appoint 2 individuals

The BTRC will appoint two individuals as consultants for conducting the 3G auction management as the five firms which applied for the consultant job failed to match commission’s criteria as per tender, said BTRC Director. The BTRC is going to call applications till May 20, for interested individuals to appoint a local consultant and an international consultant, he added.

BTRC takes initiative to reinstate PSTN, IP business

The BTRC has taken the initiative to revive the business opportunities for the Public switched telephone network (PSTN) and Internet Protocol (IP) telephones. Under a special package “differential baseline tariff”, the BTRC has reduced the interconnection charge for the PSTN and IP telephone operators, which they are to pay the cellular phone operators for using their connections. The PSTN and IP telephone operators will enjoy the special package till 2016, said a directive of the regulator.

Details

Banglalink distributes recycled school bags

Model Mehazabein rules city skyline with billboard presence

GP-Prothom Alo trust distributes tin among tornado victims

Model Ishana stars in new GP TVC

GP BPL: Sk Russel to face Sk Jamal

Robi signs deal with Mitali Food

Teletalk 3G Entrepreneurship Festival at Chittagong

BTCL slashes bandwidth price by TK 3,200

Mobile users inch towards 10cr subscribers

Irritating SMSs to subscribers

Bangladesh to join in SASEC Information Highway Program

3G Auction: BTRC to appoint 2 individuals

BTRC takes initiative to reinstate PSTN, IP business