Articles tagged with: Teletalk

Vietnam's Veittel to Buy Stake in Bangladesh's Teletalk

Vietnamese telecoms operator, Veittel is reported to be about to buy a stake in Bangladesh based teletalk and invest around US$250 million on upgrading the mobile network. more

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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

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

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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

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

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Nokia Siemens Wins Bangladeshi Network Contract

teletalk Bangladesh, the state-owned mobile operator, is to double its subscriber capacity after agreeing a network expansion project with Nokia Siemens Networks. The company will build out capacity for teletalk with the modernisation of its core network, including mobile softswitching, packet core, and Home Location Register (HLR). This marks the first supply deal in Bangladesh for the Nokia Siemens NetworksĂ' mobile softswitching. more

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

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

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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

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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

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