Dhaka – The government has planed introduction of third generation Wi-Fi connectivity on city buses to facilitate commuters to surf internet on the go, officials said on Tuesday. Twenty city buses being operated by state-run Bangladesh Road Transport Corporation will bring the service to the commuters to and from Uttara and Motijheel route. The service…
Dhaka – Bangladesh has entered into LTE (Long Term Evolution) or 4G LTE data service with an aim for commercial launch of the high-speed wireless communications through mobile or other data terminals in December. Bangladesh Internet Exchange Ltd, which is on its test run, will offer the service in the capital Dhaka and industrial city…
Dhaka – Mobile phone operators have demanded waiver of Value Added Tax on internet services to translate the government’s dream of information revolution in Bangladesh, industry insiders said on Monday. They made the suggestions in budget proposal placed before the National Board of Revenue recently. Association of Mobile Telecom Operators of Bangladesh (Amtob) said the…
Dhaka – More than 2.4 million male and female using the largest social networking website Facebook have claimed them to be single while nearly 800,000 others say they are relationship, according to statistics provided by independent researchers. Nearly 500,000 out of a total of 7 million Facebook users in the Muslim-majority South Asian country claimed…
Dhaka (newsnextbd.com) — A new study by US and Indian scientists say desert dust originating in West Asia increases or reduces the intensity of the South Asian monsoon. The article published in Nature Geoscience, this week, tried to explain how aerosols– fine particles or liquid droplets in the air– influenced rainfall patterns in unanticipated ways,…
International Desk – Data provided by Cassini spacecraft have suggested an ocean lies below a thick layer of ice on a moon of Saturn giving an idea that the moon is hospitable to life, CNN reported Thursday quoting Science journal. The result of the data analysis provided by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft that the sixth largest…
Dhaka – Biman Bangladesh Airlines has moved for scrapping the world’s last DC-10 aircraft after a museum declined to preserve it, a minister said Thursday. “As we have no other option we need to open an auction to sell it out,” said Rashed Khan Menon, Civil Aviation minister said after floating an international tender. According…
Dhaka – Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs on Thursday approved proposals for setting up two ICT villages and a hi-tech park under Public Private Partnership, officials said. The proposed villages will be set up in capital Dhaka and northern Rajshahi division while the park will be established in the north-eastern shrine city of Sylhet, according…
Dhaka – The government has failed to pay 28 million dollars within stipulated time to acquire orbital slot planned for sending Bangladeshi satellite into the space from a Russian-based satellite company, officials said. Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission with the plan to acquire the slot on 119 Degree East from Inter-Sputnik for a single lifetime of…
Dhaka – The students of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology and Chittagong University are likely to get Wi-Fi connectivity at their campuses this month as two organisations plans to provide the service. Base Technologies, in association with Institute of Information and Communication Technology (IICT), will provide the Wi-Fi services in BUET and the global…
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