School Stipend: The Directorate of Primary Education has proposed that stipends for school students be disbursed only through Nagad, a mobile-banking service. Currently, users of all the mobile banking services can get the stipends.
The telecom regulator has allowed Grameenphone to sell 78,000 SIMs to the army, police and other government and corporate customers, more than four and a half months after the operator was ordered to stop selling new SIMs.
The government has issued three submarine cable licenses to Summit Communications, CdNet Communications and Metacore Subcom Ltd. Last bastion of state-owned monopoly in telecoms will fall once the private cables emerge from the Bay of Bengal.
In the final part of this five-article series, we will take a look at how Grameenphone has helped enhance the economic growth of Bangladesh’s telecommunication sector, empowering the local workforce and making a historic contribution to the Dhaka stock market. In the final part of this five-article series, we will take a look at how Grameenphone has helped enhance the economic