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Move to export unused bandwidth to India
Published : Monday, 01 July 2013

Move to export unused bandwidth to India :: Financial Express :: Financial Newspaper of Bangladesh

Jamal Uddin

The government is seriously considering an option to export a part of the unutilised bandwidth to neighbouring India with the hope of earning a substantial amount of revenue from the sector each year, sources said.

The bandwidth will be exported mainly to the north-eastern states of India, according to a plan of the Bangladesh Submarine Cable Company Ltd (BSCCL).

India already expressed formally the interest to hire bandwidth from Bangladesh. In this connection, the Indian High Commission in Dhaka sent a letter to the ministry of foreign affairs (MoFA) recently offering to establish Optical Fibre Cable (OFC) connectivity from Akhaura across the India-Bangladesh border.

BSCCL Managing Director (MD) Monwar Hossain admitted that his company received a copy of the letter from the Indian authority regarding the bandwidth export.

"We will sit with the Indian side soon to review their proposal in this connection," Mr Hossain told the FE Thursday.

He said the country could earn foreign revenue by exporting unutilised bandwidth as almost 80 per cent of its capacity is lying idle.

Currently, the BSCCL has the bandwidth capacity of 200 GB while the country can use nearly 42 GB for data and voice services.

Six mobile phone operators, two WiMAX companies and more than 100 small and big broadband internet service providers buy bandwidth to provide internet services to above 33 million internet subscribers. Of them, 95 per cent users are connected with the mobile internet.

The BSCCL has planned to export bandwidth through two routes. The routes are 'Dhaka-Sylhet-Tamabil-Shillong-Guwahati' and 'Dhaka-Rangpur-Kurigram-Guwahati.'

"We are planning to export the bandwidth after keeping a sufficient amount for meeting our future demand," the BSCCL MD told the FE Thursday. He mentioned that the export would not be more than 50 GB.

He mentioned that the Indian states-Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Meghalaya, Manipur, Mizoram, Nagaland and Sikkim-have a great demand for bandwidth.

At present, the BSCCL earns Tk 1.5 billion by selling bandwidth of 42 GB and the earnings will almost double if the authority is able to export the unutilised portion, sources said.

Apart from India, Bhutan and Nepal also expressed their interest to import bandwidth from Bangladesh, Mr Hossain mentioned.

Gradually, the demand for bandwidth is soaring in the country due to a rapid increase in the number of internet users and internet-based services, according to the available data.

Apart from the BSCCL, some six International Terrestrial Cable (ITC) operators have started bandwidth business as alternative sources in the country. The six operators` bandwidth capacity is not more than 50 GB.

Mr Hossain also mentioned that the ITC operators and his company have to work jointly for exporting bandwidth to the landlocked countries.

Industry insiders said Bangladesh could increase the use of bandwidth by setting up fibre optics infrastructure across the country. Even the authority could lower the bandwidth price to enhance use of the product.

The authority concerned earlier also took an initiative to export bandwidth, but it failed to do it in the absence of a proper policy in this connection.

Mr Monwar Hossain earlier told the FE that the parliamentary standing committee on telecommunication consented to export of the unused bandwidth.
 
Those shitheads won't let us enjoy high speed internet,they'd rather waste it.
our money,our stuff,but we can't use it fully :cry:
 
Those shitheads won't let us enjoy high speed internet,they'd rather waste it.
our money,our stuff,but we can't use it fully :cry:

so,you now want to use 5 gbps connection,if you're using 1 gbps line before(I doubt it..most probably a 512 kbps line,tell me if I'm wrong)...damn...do you know how much that will cost??I'm also a victim of slow connection..but I know one thing.."you'll get what you'll pay"..BD will recover a large amount of revenue from this,which is simply wasting..
 
Those shitheads won't let us enjoy high speed internet,they'd rather waste it.
our money,our stuff,but we can't use it fully :cry:

blame your ISP not BSCCL... your local bandwidth is controlled by them..
 
so,you now want to use 5 gbps connection,if you're using 1 gbps line before(I doubt it..most probably a 512 kbps line,tell me if I'm wrong)...damn...do you know how much that will cost??I'm also a victim of slow connection..but I know one thing.."you'll get what you'll pay"..BD will recover a large amount of revenue from this,which is simply wasting..
You mean Mbps?
I won't mind 2 Mbps at reasonable price,currently its around 6k taka with FUP.which is freaking high compared to other nations.

blame your ISP not BSCCL... your local bandwidth is controlled by them..
Yeah,blame goes to whoever on charge :D
 
You mean Mbps?
I won't mind 2 Mbps at reasonable price,currently its around 6k taka with FUP.which is freaking high compared to other nations.


Yeah,blame goes to whoever on charge :D

how much do you pay for your internet? Even in India its very expensive, compared to uk.
My point was, BSCCL is going to sell the main bandwidth linking countries, which is not used.. the bandwidth that end user get depends on ISP, even if ISPs get it cheap from them, you might have to pay high price to ISP.
 
Silly to waste bandwidth. If it generates revenue without sacrificing BD capability I don't see any issues with this.
 
You mean Mbps?
I won't mind 2 Mbps at reasonable price,currently its around 6k taka with FUP.which is freaking high compared to other nations.

You dont want to pay for the service and you dont want your country to earn more either. think of it this way - the number of people paying for the bandwidth will be instantly doubled. and whenever the demand/price in the local market goes up, BD can restrict the bandwidth allocation for export. If wheat fails in India, they dont continue to export it right?

Since this commodity is not a one time sale, you can change terms (and price) every few years. And we all know - the price for such things only goes upwards.
 
how much do you pay for your internet? Even in India its very expensive, compared to uk.
My point was, BSCCL is going to sell the main bandwidth linking countries, which is not used.. the bandwidth that end user get depends on ISP, even if ISPs get it cheap from them, you might have to pay high price to ISP.
27-28 bucks per month,it might sound cheap but it isn't,some people work full time for this amount of money in 3rd world.
 
You dont want to pay for the service and you dont want your country to earn more either. think of it this way - the number of people paying for the bandwidth will be instantly doubled. and whenever the demand/price in the local market goes up, BD can restrict the bandwidth allocation for export. If wheat fails in India, they dont continue to export it right?

Since this commodity is not a one time sale, you can change terms (and price) every few years. And we all know - the price for such things only goes upwards.
Where did I said I don't want my country to earn more?
its frustrating for us,thought things will get changed when we connect to fiber,nothing really changed.
 
You mean Mbps?
I won't mind 2 Mbps at reasonable price,currently its around 6k taka with FUP.which is freaking high compared to other nations.

2 Mbps means you'll get our download speed around 256 KBps..you're talking about 2 MBps,right??in India,4 Mbps costs your around Rs.900,while the offer for Rs.949, Rs.1499 and Rs.2499 with speed 8Mbps, 16Mbps and 24Mbps.

so,ya,its costly,if I take your 6K figure..
 
Govt. should ensure high speed internet connectivity across the country first then they should export bandwidth. There is duopoly in Internet market in BD. Only two providers providing WIMAX service. They should give license to atleast 3 more companies. Heck. there is not even one DTH service provider. Tata Sky is ready to provide DTH but local cable organization COAB won't let it.
 

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