Bangladesh

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Bangladesh
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India
India
India
Myanmar
Bay of Bengal
MAP OF BANGLADESH
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Workshop on Regulatory capacity Building Country
Profile
Presented By Md. Golam Razzaque Deputy
Director Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory
Commission (BTRC)
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Country Profile
Bangladesh is a village oriented country. It has
an agrarian economy. Most of the part of the
country is plain cultivated land.The country is
covered with a network of rivers and canals. The
climate is tropical and prone to monsoons.
Bangladesh is divided into six administrative
divisions which are further divided into 64
districts. The districts are further divided into
thana/upazila the lowest administrative unit.
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Country Profile /contd
Name The Peoples Republic of
Bangladesh Web www.bangladesh.gov.bd Area
147,570 sq. Km/56,977 sq. miles Population
140.0 million (20 urban and 80 rural) Capital
City Dhaka Per capita income 510
USD Currency Taka
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Country Profile /contd.
Fixed Telephone Line 0.12 million Cellular
Mobile lines 9.8 million Telephone Density
(Overall) 7.9 Telephone Density
(fixed) 0.9 Telephone Density
(mobile) 7.0 Nationwide PSTN Operator License
1 (BTTB) Cellular Mobile License 6 Zonal
PSTN License 37 ISP (Internet service
provider) 205 VSAT-Provider 31 VSAT-User
86 Domestic Data Communication Service
Provider (DDCSP) 24
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Current Telecom Scenario in Bangladesh
Bangladesh announced National Telecommunication
Policy in 1998 whereby the telecom sector has
been liberalized for private participation. In
2001 the Bangladesh Telecommunication Act was
enacted which has been put into effect on 30th
January 2002 and the Bangladesh Telecommunication
Regulatory Commission (BTRC) was established on
31st January 2002. BTRC has the exclusive
jurisdiction to grant, renew, suspend cancel
Licence, allocate, manage monitor frequency
spectrum, approve rebalance tariff between
operators.
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Current Telecom Scenario in Bangladesh /contd..
Bangladesh Telegraph and Telephone Board (BTTB)
is the main state owned monopoly as the largest
PSTN operator and provides fixed telephone
services to the subscribers all over the country.
It has both NLD and ILD telephone service. It is
the only organization controlling international
gateway. As per the Bangladesh Telecommunications
Act 2001, BTTB has become a PSTN operator with a
licence by the Commission. Historically BTTB was
the authority to issue licence in the sector. In
June 1995, MoPT took over the responsibility to
issue licences in the sector and continued upto
31st January 2002 the date of establishment of
the Commission (BTRC).
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Current Telecom Scenario in Bangladesh /contd.
Then Govt established an independent Telecom
Regulatory authority in 31st January 2002.
Henceforth BTRC is the only authority to issue
licence in this sector. In 1989 first license
issued in private sector by BTTB. The then BTTB
issued 3 licences for Rural Telecommunication in
the private sector. MOPT issued 4 Cellular
Mobile Telephone licence, few VSAT/ISP licences.
Fixed phone teledensity in Bangladesh is very
poor. Only 0.9 phone per 100 populations. Demand
of fixed phone is also high because fixed phone
is considered as a family phone or a business
office phone. On the other hand cell phone is
considered as personal phone.
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Current Telecom Scenario in Bangladesh /contd..
Govt. takes the policy to increase
teledensity. BTRC issued PSTN licence through
open tendering system on first come first serve
basis. The country was divided into five zones
are N-E, N-W, S-E, S-W and Central Zone. In 2004
and early in 2005 BTRC issued 37 PSTN licence for
4 zones of the country except central zone to 15
companies who full fill the qualification
criteria without any discrimination. Only few of
them are in operation as yet. The metropolitan
city of Dhaka is considered as a single zone
called central zone where no PSTN licence was
issued as yet but process is going on to grant
licence for central zone.
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Procedure of granting licence
Certain services which are usually provided
according to demand of market and policy of the
Government or of the licencing authority may be
specified for open licencing system and the other
categories such as the basic services or those
constrained by limited resources such as scarcity
of frequency spectrum may be under competitive
bidding and tender procedure. The Licencing
procedure Regulations have been estabilished and
have been amended accordingly. Duration of the
period of licence, quality of service, service
obligations for coverage of rural areas,
transferability, ownership of the infrastructure
network, interconnectivity, licence fees, revenue
sharing and other relevant criteria and
information are considered to grant a license.
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Licencing Objectives
To in crease competition in the sector To in
crease the telecdensity of the country. To
encourage the introduction of new services and to
access to the reasonably priced and modern
telecommunication services. To avoid monopoly in
the sector. To promote the foreign investment in
the country To earn revenue by the Government.
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At present BTRC issued following types of licenses
PSTN (Fixed wired and WLL) Voice
Data. Cellular Mobile Phone Voice
Data Transmission Network Service Provider
Access provider ISP Data
VSAT-Provider Data VSAT-User
Data DDCSP Data DDCS-Corporate User
Data VoIP access telephone not yet
permitted.
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List of licensees and fees
Fixed (Wired and WLL) issued before BTRC and
revalidated by BTRC
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List of licensees and fees
/Contd.
PSTN(Wired and WLL) issued before BTRC
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List of licensees and fees /contd..
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List of licensees and fees /contd..
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Cellular Mobile Phone Operator (Country wide)
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Fees for ISP/VSAT Provider licences
ISP Nation wide (Cat. D) License fee Tk.5.0
lakh Annual fee Tk. 3.0 lakh Bandwidth fee
upto 128 kbps tk. 30 thousand (annually) upto
512 kbps tk. 50 thousand above 512 kbps
tk. 100 thousand VSAT Provider License fee
Tk.2.0 lakh Annual fee Tk. 2.0 lakh Note All
license application require tk. 500 for
application form and tk 5000.0 for application
processing
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Present subscriber status
Mobile
Total 9.8 Million
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Fixed (Wire WLL)
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Subscriber Growth from 1996 - 2005
Figures in 000
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