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4G helps recovery of Europe’s mobile industry: GSMA repor

BRUSSELS, Dec. 10 (NsNewsWire) — Europe’s rapid migration to 4G services and devices helped to stimulate the recovery of the mobile industry, according to a new GSM Association (GSMA) report published during the GSMA Mobile 360-Europe event here on Monday. The new report, “Mobile Economy: Europe 2014,” said the financial outlook of the mobile industry […]

Mobile banking to promote countryside growth in Bangladesh

by Naim-Ul-Karim DHAKA, Dec. 9 (NsNewsWire) — In Bangladesh, less than a quarter of the impoverished country’s 153 million people are using the normal banking system in their monetary transactions. But things are changing across Bangladesh with an easy and safe way to send or receive money through the mobile banking system. Mobile banking is […]

Robi Career Carnival held at Islamic University of Technology (IUT)‏

DHAKA, Dec. 2 (NsNewsWire) — Robi Axiata Limited, one of the leading mobile phone operators has organized a day long program named “Robi Career Carnival” at Islamic University of Technology (IUT) today. Robi organized this program to make the students of IUT aware of the career opportunities available with the company and the industry at […]

Airtel launches 3G services in Habiganj

Dhaka, Dec 2 (NsNewsWire) –Airtel Bangladesh Limited, the fastest growing telecom operator in Bangladesh, has launched its 3G services in Habiganj with a colorful festive rally on Monday. Airtel thrives to deliver best in class 3G services for its valued customers of Bangladesh. The company has been relentlessly expanding its 3G network throughout the country. […]

Feature: Internet technology raises educational hopes for rural children in Bangladesh

By Naim-Ul-Karim DHAKA, Dec. 1 (Xinhua) — A charming, yet revolutionary television commercial has been garnering a great deal of attention on and off the airwaves and changing the way people in Bangladesh think about education, particularly in poorer, more rural areas, as local students are being taught by teachers hundreds of miles away in […]

Solar Homes Helping to End ‘Power Discrimination’ in Bangladesh

DHAKA, Nov. 30 (NsNewsWire) — Electricity, the very thing bringing these words to your eyes, is inaccessible to 45 percent of Bangladesh’s population. Fewer than half the people living in the country’s rural areas are on the power grid at all. That’s why the Solar Home System Project, launched in 2007, is particularly good news […]

Bangladesh’s active mobile subscriber base reaches 118.932 mln

DHAKA, Nov. 27 (NsNewsWire) — The total number of Bangladesh cell phone users reached 118.932 million at the end of October this year, official data showed Thursday. According to Bangladesh’s Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC), the number of subscribers of the country’s six cell phone operators — Grameenphone, Banglalink, Robi, Airtel, Citycell, Teletalk — at the […]

Ex-Bangladesh minister jailed for hurting Muslims’ religious sentiments

DHAKA, Nov. 25 (NsNewsWire) — Abdul Latif Siddiquee, who was removed on Oct. 16 from the cabinet for his derogatory comments, has landed in jail in a case for hurting Muslims’ religious sentiments. Former Bangladeshi Posts, Telecommunications and Information Technology Minister Abdul Latif Siddiqueed was sent to jail after he surrendered Tuesday. He returned to […]

Microsoft Bangladesh captures World’s largest selfie

Dhaka, Nov 23 (NsNewsWire) — Microsoft Mobile Device & Services (MMDS) Bangladesh mesmerized the world to create World’s Largest Selfie. The World’s Largest Selfie has been captured with at least 1,151 selfie lovers in one gigantic selfie in front of Bashundhara City Shopping Mall on Saturday evening, said a press release. Microsoft also released a […]