3G permit auction in Jan

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3G permit auction in Jan


Fri, Sep 21st, 2012 12:45 pm BdST


Shamim Ahamed
bdnews24.com Senior Correspondent

Dhaka, Sep 21 (bdnews24.com) - The telecom ministry and the sector's regulatory body are preparing to host 3G licence auction at the start of the next year.

"We are already near the end of taking opinions of stakeholders, specialists and the public about the draft 3G guidelines," Sunil Kanti Bose, the Secretary of the Ministry of Posts & Telecommunications, told bdnews24.com.

He continued that the primary guideline draft will be completed by October and sent to related stakeholders, including the Bangladesh Telecommunications Regulatory Communication (BTRC). It will then be finalised by December.

The Secretary added that the finalised guideline would mention a target auction date and that they were preparing to host the bidding in January.

"The ministry is working to finalise the draft of the guideline. We will finish the required preparations for the auction in line with their directives," Acting BTRC Chairman Giasuddin Ahmed told bdnews24.com adding that they would prepare accordingly if the ministry asked them to schedule the auction for January.

The BTRC on Mar 28 submitted the draft guideline, which targeted Sep 3 for the auction of 3G mobile service licences, at the ministry targeting to give five operators the access.

The BTRC draft titled 'Cellular Mobile Phone Service (3G/4G/LTE) Regulatory Licence Guideline 2012' also allowed operators to obtain licence for 3G, 4G and Long Term Evaluation (LTE) services in one go.

The five operators to be given the 15-year access would include three existing private operators, one new operator and Teletalk will be getting the permit as the state-run operator.

Teletalk would be officially launching it 3G services on Oct 14, before the auction is held. However, even though it was not taking part in the auction, the state-run operator would have to pay the price set in the auction, the draft said.

The draft also suggested providing the five operators 10 megahertz frequencies each.

In the draft guidelines, the fee for every megahertz has been proposed at $30 million. It sets the application fee at Tk 0.5 million, licensing fee at Tk 100 million and renewal for every year will cost Tk 50 million, revenue sharing will be 5.5 percent while social obligation fee will be 1 percent.

State-owned Teletalk, along with private operators Grameenphone, Banglalink, Robi, Airtel and Citycell, is offering 2G services now.

The 3G technology will make mobile telephony much more efficient, with high-speed data transfer facilitating users to watch mobile TV, make video calls, using navigation equipment and access many other services.

LTE's data transfer speed is 80 percent higher than 3G. Experts say 4G and LTE are same. Its download speed is 100 megabyte per second and upload speed is 50 Mb/S.

LTE's data pipe is built in such a way that users are able to do work of desktop computers with it.

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Allah rohom koro...please. Aar koto din ei 2G BS niye kosto korbo.