for providing broadband wireless access services as the Bangladesh
Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) initiated process for
awarding these last week, officials said.
The BTRC has already prepared the draft regulatory and licencing
guidelines and sought comments from the interested persons in this
connection until July 9 next, a senior BTRC official told the FE
He said under the BTRC guideline the ISPs are allowed to compete for
these licences while the mobile phone operators are barred from
taking part in the competition.
Apart from vying for these licences the existing ISPs will be allowed
to provide wireless internet services for next five years from the
day of awarding broadband wireless access service licences.
The ISPs, however, will be allowed to provide wired broadband
internet services beyond the five-year's timeframe, the BTRC official
said.
"This is encouraging that unlike the previous licencing round the
BTRC this time did not disqualify the ISPs for competing for the
broadband wireless access services," an ISP owner told the FE.
He also hoped that in line with the International Long Distance
Telecommunication Service (ILDTS) Policy-2007 the commission would
provide internet telephony licences (IP telephony) only to the ISPs.
Section 11 of the ILDTS Policy narrates that the BTRC will provide
four types of licences - international gateway (IGW), interconnection
exchange (ICX), Internet Exchange (IX) and IP telephony - to open the
telecom services to private sector.
Keeping the IP telephony license only for the ISPs the BTRC has kept
the licences of the IGW, ICX and IX open.
Section 12.5 of the ILDTS policy states: "IP telephony licences will
be issued to ISP operators except PSTN or PLMN operators having ISP
licenses."
The BTRC has already awarded tree types of licences - international
gateway (IGW), interconnection exchange (ICX) and internet gateway
(IIG) - to private entrepreneurs after conducting the rare live
auctions by the BTRC.
The telecom regulator provided three IGW licences to Novotel Ltd,
Bangla Trac Communications Ltd and Mir Telecom, two ICX licenses to
M&H Telecom and Getco Telecommunications Ltd and one IIG license to
Mango Teleservices.
All these six companies that received the BTRC licences has already
initiated their groundbreaking works and are expected to start formal
operations soon, BTRC sources said.
Awarding of the telecom licences would not only ensure significant
government revenue earnings but also bring about a discipline in the
telecom sector, the BTRC official said.
Due to absence of proper regulations and monitoring a section of
unscrupulous businessmen in connivance with government high-ups were
earning hundreds of billions taka through illegal voice over internet
protocol in last several years.
Source:
The Financial Express
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