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Chevron Announces First Gas From Bangladesh Bibiyana Expansion Project

SAN RAMON, Calif, Oct. 29 (NsNewsWire)– Chevron Corporation has announced that its Bangladesh subsidiary has commenced natural gas production from the Bibiyana Expansion Project in the northeastern part of the country. Chevron made the announcement through a statement on Oct. 28. “The expansion is one of a slate of projects across the region that will […]

The Solar Energy Revolution Everyone’s Ignoring… Is In Bangladesh

We put a lot of cyber ink into the German, Australian, US, Chinese, Indian, Chilean, and Japanese solar energy revolutions. However, I think the Bangladeshi solar revolution is one we don’t write about enough. One of the biggest reasons for that is probably that it doesn’t compare to the others on a total capacity basis. […]

GP employees release balloons to thank customers

DHAKA, Oct. 21 (NsNewsWire) — Over 4000 employees of Grameenphone or GP around the country thanked its 5 crore customers (today) Tuesday. Employees stationed at GPHouse were seen releasing thousands of balloons inscribed with the words “Thank You”. Similar programs were also held in all regional offices of Grameenphone across the country.

Telenor’s Grameenphone welcomes 50 millionth customer in Bangladesh

Telenor’s Grameenphone Tuesday celebrated a remarkable milestone on Tuesday when it welcomed its 50 millionth mobile customer in Bangladesh. Grameenphone (GP), 55.8 percent owned by Norwegian telecom company Telenor and 34.2 percent by local Grameen Telecom, has achieved this goal after 17 years of business in the country. At a press conference in Dhaka, top […]

Airtel Complains About Higher Mobile Money Charges by Rival Network

Kenya’s Airtel has confirmed that the country’s Competition Authority is investigating a complaint about the pricing of mobile money services. Airtel had sent a complaint to the anti-trust regulator after reportedly noticing that the country’s largest mobile network operator, Safaricom charges more for money transfers to Airtel customers than it does for transfers to its […]

Mobile users to pay 1pc surcharge on talk time, other services

The National Board of Revenue has taken an initiative to impose surcharge at the rate of one per cent on mobile phone services including talk time to boost revenue collection from the sector, officials said. They said that the proposed surcharge would be named ‘development surcharge’. The revenue to be collected from the sector will […]

Bangladesh’s mobile phone users reach 116.24 mln

Bangladesh’s mobile phone subscribers topped 116 million at the end of May, with about 3 million new users in the first five months of this year, official data showed Wednesday. According to Bangladesh’s Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC), the total number of cell phone users in the South Asian country of about 153 million people reached […]

Bangladesh’s Infoladies Bring the Internet to Villages on Bicycle

Only 5 million of Bangladesh’s 152 million citizens have regular Internet access. Three-quarters live in rural villages. The Infoladies, a group of about 50 women in their early 20s, travel through the countryside equipped with a laptop computer, a tablet, a smartphone, a digital camera, and a glucometer ministering to the technologically impoverished, reports Bloomberg […]

NTT DoCoMo announces major 5G trials

No time for LTE complacency; it’s full speed ahead for trials of the next generation of mobile broadband technologies. Guy Daniels reports. Japan’s NTT DoCoMo has today announced plans for major 5G experimental trials with six of the industry’s leading equipment vendors. Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson, Fujitsu, NEC, Nokia and Samsung will collaborate with the mobile operator […]