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MNA Science & Tech Desk: State Minister for Posts and Telecommunications Tarana Halim on Thursday said a person will now be allowed to register maximum 20 mobile SIM cards against one national identity card. The decision was taken at a meeting held at the Secretariat where Prime Minister’s ICT Adviser Sajeeb Wazed Joy was present, Tarana said while talking to news agency. Earlier in September, Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) revised its previous decision allowing a person to register highest five SIM cards against one NID card. The state minister also said the 4G mobile phone service will be launched ...

MNA National Desk: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has been gifted a replica of the Bangabandhu–1 satellite, which is scheduled for launch in December 16, the victory day of Bangladesh. The replica was handed over to the Sheikh Hasina by Tarana Halim, Minister of State for Post and Telecommunications, just before the cabinet meeting at the Secretariat on Monday. Thales Alenia Space, a French aerospace manufacturer, is manufacturing the satellite with a cost of Tk 2,967 crore. Among the total cost, Bangladesh government will bear the cost of TK 1,555 crore. Earlier, on October 21, 2015 the Cabinet committee on government ...

MNA Science & Technology Desk: Tarana Halim, State Minister for Posts and Telecommunications, said Facebook authorities will delete the fake accounts registered using the names of members of parliament (MPs) and VVIP personalities of Bangladesh. “Once we provide the URL (Uniform Resource Locator) of those fake accounts of MPs and VVIPs to Facebook authorities, they’ll shut down those,” Tarana said to journalists. She made the remarks at a press briefing in Secretariat on Monday after returning from a meeting with Facebook authorities in Singapore. “We will now send a letter to the parliament speaker for identifying the URL of the ...

MNA Culture & Science Desk: State minister for posts and telecommunications Tarana Halim on Saturday told parliament that the Facebook authorities have so far blocked 87 Facebook accounts, pages and links of Bangladesh at the request of the government. The government of Bangladesh requested Facebook authorities in the last 18 months to block a total of 196 account, pages and links for having “contents of violence, religious instigations and other objectionable matters”, she said. “Of these, the Facebook authorities blocked 87 accounts, pages and links responding to our requests within 48 hours,” said Tarana. Tarana also said a project titled ...

MNA Business Desk: The government has received Tk. 1507.05 crore—Tk. 1137.98 as revenue sharing, Tk. 40.50 crore as license fee and Tk. 328.56 crore as spectrum charge from the mobile companies in fiscal year 2015-16. State Minister of Posts, Telecommunications and Information Technology Zunaid Ahmed Palak said this on behalf of State Minister of the Post and Telecommunications Division Tarana Halim while replying to a starred question from a treasury bench member M Golam Rabbani in the Jatiya Sangsad. Palak said till date the government has dues of Taka 1610.9 crore with Teletalk Bangladesh Company and Taka 484.47 crore with ...

MNA Editorial Desk: The state minister of posts and telecommunications, Tarana Halim, has said that selling unauthorized, biometrically verified SIM cards will invite $50 penalty per fake SIM within in a week. The suggestion is aimed at restriction on the use of SIM cards that are not registered with bona fide consumers. “We are monitoring all operators closely. If any SIM has been inadvertently registered with the wrong biometric details the operators will have to bear penalty of $50 per SIM. A letter in this regard from the BTRC will be sent out to operators soon. So far, 120 million ...

MNA Business Report: Tarana Halim, State Minister for Post and Telecommunications, said on Tuesday that Citycell users have only 7 days to switch to another operator. Tarana Halim later confirmed that her division has decided in principle to cancel the licence of Citycell, the oldest mobile-phone operator in Bangladesh. Questioned what would happen to 400 Citycell workers once the operator closed, she replied, “It’s their internal matter. The ministry or BTRC can’t say anything on this issue.” Earlier on August 2, Shahjahan Mahmood, Telecom regulators BTRC Chairman, said the authorities shut down the company anytime. According to the BTRC information, ...

MNA Business Desk: Bhutan highly wants to import internet bandwidth from Bangladesh. Tarana Halim, State Minister for Post and Telecommunications, said that the Himalayan kingdom interested to settle a deal within two months. As a part of the dealing Bhutan will send a delegation within November to fix the amount, price and route to take in the bandwidth. The group would discuss about establishing connectivity and frame an outline about the probable import of bandwidth from Bangladesh. Bangladesh presently has a 200 GBPS connection to the submarine cable – South East Asia–Middle East–Western Europe 4 (SEA-ME-WE 4). And it is ...