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1 week ago | 
thedailystar.net | Mahmudul Hasan
Starlink is steadily consolidating its presence in Bangladesh through a series of partnership agreements with local companies, with deals spanning ground station development, colocation and data centre services, core site hosting, transmission, and international internet gateway (IIG) facilities. The Daily Star spoke to half a dozen individuals, including officials from companies involved in these partnerships.
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1 week ago | 
thedailystar.net | Mahmudul Hasan
Starlink is steadily consolidating its presence in Bangladesh through a series of partnership agreements with local companies, with deals spanning ground station development, colocation and data centre services, core site hosting, transmission, and international internet gateway (IIG) facilities. The Daily Star spoke to half a dozen individuals, including officials from companies involved in these partnerships.
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1 week ago | 
thedailystar.net | Mahmudul Hasan
The Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) has decided to reduce the maximum number of SIM cards a user can register under their name from 15 to 10. As a result of this change, approximately 67 lakh SIM cards registered under 26 lakh users who currently exceed the new limit will be disabled. This decision was made during a BTRC meeting on May 19 and has already been sent to the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications for final approval.
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1 week ago | 
thedailystar.net | Mahmudul Hasan
Four new companies have applied to the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) for Nationwide Telecommunication Transmission Network (NTTN) licences, reflecting renewed interest in the transmission business in the country. According to state guidelines, the licence is primarily for building, maintaining, and managing a nationwide fibre-optic transmission network and sharing infrastructure for telecom operators and internet service providers.
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2 weeks ago | 
thedailystar.net | Mahmudul Hasan
The internet regulator has reduced broadband internet prices at the consumer level by up to 20 percent in a bid to make internet access more affordable across the country. The Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) issued the directive to broadband internet service providers on Tuesday.
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3 weeks ago | 
thedailystar.net | Mahmudul Hasan
The Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission's (BTRC) draft policy to reform its complex licensing regime arrives with bold promises — streamlining processes, encouraging competition, and attracting foreign investment. Yet, beneath the surface, certain clauses lack clarity and may safeguard existing market inequalities, empower dominant players, sideline local entrepreneurs, and, in some cases, discourage foreign ownership, said experts.
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3 weeks ago | 
thedailystar.net | Rejaul Karim Byron |Mahmudul Hasan
The government is planning to significantly reduce its bank borrowing target in the upcoming fiscal year as it aims to narrow the budget deficit by scaling down the overall budget size. The target is set to be slashed by nearly 25 percent in the budget for FY26, dropping to Tk 104,000 crore. The budget deficit for the outgoing fiscal year is also likely to shrink by around Tk 30,000 crore to Tk 226,000 crore, according to a finance ministry official.
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3 weeks ago | 
thedailystar.net | Mahmudul Hasan
The internet regulator in Bangladesh has granted Starlink permission to supply bandwidth from outside the country for 90 days. This decision comes after Starlink requested the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) to grant a temporary waiver, as the company's 90-day deadline to launch services in Bangladesh would expire before a local gateway could be established.
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4 weeks ago | 
thedailystar.net | Rejaul Karim Byron |Mahmudul Hasan
Bangladesh's interim government is preparing to unveil a rare contractionary budget on June 2, driven by a sharp rise in interest payment that is crowding out fiscal space and forcing spending cuts. The national budget for fiscal year 2025-26 is set at Tk 7,90,000 crore -- Tk 7,000 crore lower than the original outlay for the current year -- marking the first time in recent memory that the overall budget will shrink.
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1 month ago | 
thedailystar.net | Rejaul Karim Byron |Mahmudul Hasan
As part of policy reforms aimed at improving the credibility and accuracy of national statistics, the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) has been empowered to publish official data without prior government approval. At present, approval from the planning minister and head of state is required before the BBS can publish data. This process causes significant delays in data publishing, as files often remain stuck in limbo before ultimately being approved.
