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Articles tagged with: Grameenphone and Banglalink
Award the 3G Licenses Urges Ericsson to Bangladesh
Ericsson has urged the Bangladeshi government to speed up the process to offer 3G licenses so that the mobile operators can tap the existing 3G phone user base in the country. more
Related Tags: ericsson, 3g-license, aktel, warid-telecom, citycell, teletalk, mobile-internet, 3g-phone, gsma, 3g-licenses, Bangladesh
Grameenphone to Raise $65 Million in Stock Market Floatation
Bangladeshi mobile operator grameenphone has filed its final application for an initial public offering (IPO) of US$65 million. The company expects the subscription period for the IPO to be late January or early February next year. more
Related Tags: telenor, ipo, aktel, warid-telecom, citycell, teletalk, Bangladesh
Bangladeshi Confirms 3G Licenses by Next March
Bangladesh's telecoms regulator, the BTRC has confirmed that it plans to award 3G licenses in the country by March 2009 - a delay on earlier promises to offer the licenses by the end of this year. During the launch of a trial 3G network by Ericsson in August, BTRC chairman Maj Gen (retd.) Manzurul Alam put a valuation of US$200 million on the licenses. more
Related Tags: 3g-license, ericsson, itu, aktel, warid-telecom, citycell, teletalk, gsma, 3g-licenses, Bangladesh
Grameenphone Slashes Stock Market Floatation Plans
Bangladesh's largest mobile operator, grameenphone has slashed the expected proceeds from its planned stock market floatation, to just US$125 million - citing the economic downturn in the global markets. more
Related Tags: telenor, ipo, aktel, warid-telecom, citycell, teletalk, Bangladesh
Bangladeshi Operators Pay $204 Million for Extra Radio Spectrum
Bangladesh's telecoms regulator, the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission has sold a tranch of additional radio spectrum for US$204 million. Three incumbent operators brought the spectrum which the regulator said was necessary to cope with their increasing subscriber base. more
Related Tags: aktel, warid-telecom, citycell, teletalk, radio-spectrum, Bangladesh
Bangladesh to Require Mobile Network Infrastructure Sharing
Bangladesh's telecoms regulator, the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission has published its guidelines for Infrastructure Sharing. Under the procedures, the operators are to be encouraged to share aspects of their network infrastructure, subject to approval from the regulator. more
Related Tags: aktel, warid-telecom, citycell, teletalk, Bangladesh
Muhammad Yunus Threatens to Sue Telenor Over Grameenphone Stake
Muhammad Yunus, the Nobel Peace Prize winner whose company, Grameen Telecom is a minority shareholder in Bangladesh's biggest mobile-phone network, grameenphone said he may take legal action to force Telenor to give up control of the venture. more
Related Tags: telenor, ipo, aktel, warid-telecom, citycell, teletalk, dhaka, Bangladesh
Ericsson Trials 3G Network in Bangladesh
According to reports in various local media, Ericsson has set up a demonstration 3G network in Bangladesh. Under the project styled 'Alokito Bangladesh', the company will demonstrate 3G services, including mobile health and mobile learning, in Dhaka until October. more
Related Tags: 3g-license, ericsson, aktel, warid-telecom, citycell, teletalk, 3g-licenses, dhaka, Bangladesh
Second Bangladeshi Operator Plans Stock Market Listing
Bangladeshi mobile phone network operator, AKTEL has confirmed that it still intends to list its shares on the local stock market. The company is 70% owned by Telekom Malaysia International and the 30% remaining is currently in the process of being sold by A.K. Khan to Japan's DoCoMo for around US$350 million. more
Related Tags: telekom-malaysia, docomo, aktel, teletalk, telekom, dhaka, Bangladesh
Bangladeshi Operators to Share Network Infrastructure
Bangladeshi operators, Warid Telecom and Pacific Bangladesh Telecom (Citycell) have signed an agreement to share their network infrastructure. Under the deal, signed earlier this week the two companies will share the passive elements of around 350 of their respective base stations - covering towers, poles, transmitter equipment, transmission bandwidth and power supplies. more
Related Tags: rural, docomo, aktel, warid-telecom, citycell, teletalk, base-stations, backhaul, Bangladesh