News & Comment
Won’t someone please think of the prepaid user?
February 3, 2008, by Ruadhán O'Donoghue
A while back Ronan blogged about the stifling effect of data charges on the growth of the mobile Internet. Well since then, 3 launched their X-Series flat-rate data package, and people got excited. This was a great development and a possible catalyst for the widespread penetration of mobile Internet usage. Surely the other operators would have to follow suit with similar competitive data plans... Read More
Vodafone plans for Bangladesh
January 31, 2008, by svo9712
Vodafone, the mobile giant from UK is interested to invest in Bangladesh. There was an ongoing talk about Vodafone’s movement from November last year. But the recent visit of Gavin Darby, the CEO of Vodafone Asia, Africa, China and India in Bangladesh made a lot of news about Vodafone’s footage in Bangladeshi market... Read More
Bangladesh: Some Unique Services from the Telcos
January 22, 2008, by svo9712
There are currently six(6) mobile operators in Bangladesh. Among them GrameenPhone, AKTEL, Banglalink, Warid and Teletalk are the GSM operator. Whereas CityCell is the only one CDMA operator in Bangladesh. So far GSM is more popular than CDMA here. I think this is because of characterstics of Bangladeshi people. We generally like to change handsets frequently. Or I may say that we like to have more handset options in which sector GSM technology is found great. Anyway today I will just try to focus on some of the Value Added Services (VAS) from different operators here which I think gave some sort of uniqueness to them... Read More
2007 presentations round up
January 2, 2008, by atrasatti
During 2007 I had the fun and honor of presenting at quite a few events around Europe. I already spoke about a few of them and most presentations have already been provided on the appropriate sites. Anyway I wanted to have a single place to collect my presentations, so thanks to Giulio (A.K.A. giulivo) I have a directory on our company site... Read More
AKTEL MMS Greetings Portal
December 31, 2007, by svo9712
In the Bangladesh market AKTEL (www.aktel.com) always came up with various different types of Value Added Services for its subscribers. This time is also not different. Just on the eve of our (Bangladeshi's) national victory day (on 16th December) AKTEL launched AKTEL MMS Greetings portal. MMS greetings portal is the first time in Bangladesh market. So again AKTEL took the lead to launch a lifestyle service with a new concept... Read More
