Work on to build Bangabandhu Satellite-2: Mustafa Jabbar
The Bangladesh government has already taken the initiative to build and launch Bangabandhu Satellite-2, Telecommunications and ICT Minister Mustafa Jabbar has said.
“Work has already started to implement the launch of Bangabandhu Satellite-2. The government is determined to develop and launch the satellite within the stipulated time, as promised in our party’s election manifesto,” the Minister said on Wednesday night.
He was speaking at a virtual event organised by Bangladesh Satellite Company Limited (BSCL) to mark the fourth anniversary of the launch of Bangabandhu Satellite-1.
“Experts are working to determine whether Bangabandhu Satellite-2 will be a communication satellite or an earth observation or weather satellite,” the Minister said.
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They also mentioned that it is time to take initiative to reduce charges for MFS services. Multiply Tk 1.5 with the number of total transactions of a year, and see how much extra money is being taken, said Shyam Sunder Sikder, chairman of Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC).
Terming the extra Tk 1.5 charge as theft and fraud, he said: A monopoly business is going on here in the MFS sector. To prevent this, restrictions need to be imposed on significant market powers. We need to investigate how they [MFS providers)] are charging an additional Tk 1.5 for their services, said Abul Kashem, former deputy governor of Bangladesh Bank.
Improve service to get tax benefit
Jabbar asks mobile operators
The BTRC regularly receives thousands of complaints against mobile phone operators about their poor service, said Telecom Minister Mustafa Jabbar. Photo: Star/file Star Business Report Star Business Report
Mobile phone operators should focus more on improving the quality of service to get tax exemption, said Posts and Telecommunications Minister Mustafa Jabbar yesterday.
Citing call drop, low internet speed and the lack of network coverage, he said the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) regularly received thousands of complaints against mobile phone operators about their poor service.
He asked the operators to be proactive in improving the quality of service considering the interests of consumers.
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In an online video of his sermons that went viral, a Muslim preacher called for journalists to be “slaughtered” in Bangladesh, where conservative ideology keeps shrinking the space for freedom of speech, a global media group said in a report this week.
The preacher and madrassa teacher, Wasik Billah Nomani, delivered the sermon in the presence of thousands of people, “repeatedly vowing to ‘slaughter’ journalists after establishing the caliphate,” the International Federation of Journalists said in its South Asia Press Freedom Report 2020-21.
The preacher, a prominent activist with the hardline Hefazat-e-Islam group, was arrested in the city of Mymensingh on April 11 for allegedly making provocative statements in his sermons, but social media is “overflowing” with Islamic lectures replete with “hate speech,” IFJ reported.