High tax barrier to affordable internet in rural areas: TIPAP roundtable
High government taxation has made it nearly impossible to offer affordable internet services to rural communities, said industry stakeholders on Thursday...
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E-commerce businesses seek govt support for recovery
Amid the ongoing crisis, entrepreneurs in the e-commerce sector have sought government assistance to recover from the extensive damage caused by the disruption of internet services and other issues...
Internet services could be restored any moment: Palak
Maximum efforts are being made to restore internet services, state minister for posts, telecommunications and ICT Zunaid Ahmad Palak said on Monday...
Internet services not restored fully
The area-based and, on a priority basis partly reinstated broadband internet connections in the Capital Dhaka and Chattogram were extended by a small portion on Wednesday, following a complete internet blackout for five straight days, amid the countrywide violence over student protest against quota in government job...
30 lawyers condemn use of 鈥榚xcessive, force鈥� on quota protesters
Thirty lawyers condemned the 鈥榰se of excessive and disproportionate force鈥� on the student protesters demanding quota reforms in government jobs in a statement issued on Sunday...
The fear of truth
TRUTH is defiant. It finds its way to be in public circulation. Sometimes quietly. That has been the case since July 18, when the government suspended all internet services in Bangladesh apparently to 鈥榗ontain violence surrounding the student protest for quota reform鈥�. Public, however, thinks otherwise. Words on the streets are that the...
Dangerously bereft of internet services
THE internet that was an affair, in many cases, of something to boast of for enterprises and individuals in the late 1990s when it was introduced in Bangladesh has no longer been so. It has now become an essential medium of communications that has profusely influenced the way of life. The internet has become an integral part of business...