Indian undue influence on Awami League Regime – Bharati Airtel ill gotten benefit

[idune]

Indian undue influence on Awami League Regime – Bharati Airtel ill gotten benefit

Bangladesh Telecommunications Company Limited (BTCL) has signed a SECRET deal with Bharati Airtel to use its and teletalk infrastructure. When journalist asked BTCL and BTRC (Bangladesh Telecom Regulatory Commission) officials said agreement is secret. It is important to note that telecom ministry secretary Sunil Kanti Bose who is from hindu community has been pushing for these deals benefitting indian companies including project to give india telecom corridor. And Bharati Airtel has used indian undue influence on current Awami League regime to solicit these ill gotten benefits. There had been already published report that Awami govt had given 1.4 billion taka tax exemption by faking price of Warid. During the deal Bharati Airtel announced they will keep most of employee from Bangladesh and will make $300 million new investment. But Bharati Airtel already broke the its employee promise by shifting some of its operational activity in India. Now as secrecy of the deal suggests Bharati Airtel its way to break investment promise by using BTCL and Teletalk (govt own mobile operator) infrastructure with virtually no cost. By doing this People of Bangladesh as owner of BTCL and Teletalk will once again bear cost for Bharati Airtel business in Bangladesh. With this type of free ride on back of Bangladeshi people it would not be at all surprising when Bharati Airtel come up with lowest rate in Bangladesh. This is gross plundering of Bangladesh resource and not to mention corrupt business practice. Not only that, these infrastructure sharing has some serious national security implications.

Report in Bangla:
Amardesh Online Edition

 

[saleen_s7]

Do you know Grameen has more subscribers than Vodafone? Bangladesh so far has done an excellent job in the telecom industry. We should really look into this matter as we don't want foreign investors dominating this industry as the local ones generate heavy revenue for us.

 

[somebozo]

Why do i have a feeling that bharti airtel infrastructure will serve as a gaint spying, command, relay and control towers for Indian RAW to ensure their future grip. The security of Indian northeast lies in corridor through Bangladesh

 

[integra]

dunno if its true or wrong but let me throw in some info's also. Remember there was an article in prothom alo about the validity of warids license during the deal? That was a deal breaker for airtel because a news like that in a national newspaper could have helped them in negotiations with warid. Heard they had it for almost half of the asking rate.
Well the background story is airtel bribed the chief editor of pro alo a substantial amount to publish a news like that. How do I know this? Well one of my relative informed me about the news before it was published unfortunately there's no record of it.

 

[saleen_s7]

Why do i have a feeling that bharti airtel infrastructure will serve as a gaint spying, command, relay and control towers for Indian RAW to ensure their future grip. The security of Indian northeast lies in corridor through Bangladesh

That maybe a bit too far fetched as airtel is a private company.

 

[DesiGuy]

man, stop blaming india everytime.

that's your government selected by BD government and if you don't like it, change the government instead of yelling here on pdf.

because that's wouldn't' change anything.

 

[LaBong]

Why do i have a feeling that bharti airtel infrastructure will serve as a gaint spying, command, relay and control towers for Indian RAW to ensure their future grip. The security of Indian northeast lies in corridor through Bangladesh

Bozo you have a morbid sense of humour. Not cool.

 

[somebozo]

That maybe a bit too far fetched as airtel is a private company.

private companies can be forced or lured into spying..google and facebook are private as well..with deep connected links to CIA. Look at the gaint private sector milliatry machine of US.

 

[wild_fire1979]

private companies can be forced or lured into spying..google and facebook are private as well..with deep connected links to CIA. Look at the gaint private sector milliatry machine of US.

If Pakistanis would apply their immense talent of creating such fanciful conspiracy theories and sell these off as movie scripts to the west, they would create a brand new outsourcing industry Rather, they just start believing in this sh** and ruining their psyche and country

 

[wild_fire1979]

Indian undue influence on Awami League Regime – Bharati Airtel ill gotten benefit

Bangladesh Telecommunications Company Limited (BTCL) has signed a SECRET deal with Bharati Airtel to use its and teletalk infrastructure. When journalist asked BTCL and BTRC (Bangladesh Telecom Regulatory Commission) officials said agreement is secret. It is important to note that telecom ministry secretary Sunil Kanti Bose who is from hindu community has been pushing for these deals benefitting indian companies including project to give india telecom corridor. And Bharati Airtel has used indian undue influence on current Awami League regime to solicit these ill gotten benefits. There had been already published report that Awami govt had given 1.4 billion taka tax exemption by faking price of Warid. During the deal Bharati Airtel announced they will keep most of employee from Bangladesh and will make $300 million new investment. But Bharati Airtel already broke the its employee promise by shifting some of its operational activity in India. Now as secrecy of the deal suggests Bharati Airtel its way to break investment promise by using BTCL and Teletalk (govt own mobile operator) infrastructure with virtually no cost. By doing this People of Bangladesh as owner of BTCL and Teletalk will once again bear cost for Bharati Airtel business in Bangladesh. With this type of free ride on back of Bangladeshi people it would not be at all surprising when Bharati Airtel come up with lowest rate in Bangladesh. This is gross plundering of Bangladesh resource and not to mention corrupt business practice. Not only that, these infrastructure sharing has some serious national security implications.

Report in Bangla:
Amardesh Online Edition

If you don't like what your govt, industry, firms, people do, then go stand in an election, win a majority and change your constitution, laws, foreign policy.

But rather, you would just spend time posting it on a forum which is read by maybe 0.01% of our respective nations population, 80% of them are expatriates who are not even gonna vote in their national elections.

So you see how pointless it is to complain about a telecom contract in a 'Defense Forum'

 

[idune]

dunno if its true or wrong but let me throw in some info's also. Remember there was an article in prothom alo about the validity of warids license during the deal? That was a deal breaker for airtel because a news like that in a national newspaper could have helped them in negotiations with warid. Heard they had it for almost half of the asking rate.

Well the background story is airtel bribed the chief editor of pro alo a substantial amount to publish a news like that. How do I know this? Well one of my relative informed me about the news before it was published unfortunately there's no record of it.

Bharati Airtel purchased $ 650 million dollars (50 million paid for license and 600 million invested) Warid Telecom at virtually no cost ($100k) all facilated by strategically installed people like telecom ministry secretary Sunil Kanti Bose and indian consultants in BTRC along with PM advisors and her own son.

Please see the news below who are beneficiaries from Bharati Airtel ill gotten deals. It include Sheikh Hasian son

1)Sajeeb Wajed Joy
2) Sheikh Hasina’s indian born and linked advisor Gowhar Rizvi
3) Sheikh Hasina’s advisor H T Imam
4) BTRC Chairman
5) Mahfuz Anam of Daily star
6) Motiur Rahman of Prothom Alo
7) Toufiq Imroz Khaledi of bdnews24

And many more……



Amardesh Online Edition

 

[integra]

Bharati Airtel purchased $ 650 million dollars (50 million paid for license and 600 million invested) Warid Telecom at virtually no cost ($100k) all facilated by strategically installed people like telecom ministry secretary Sunil Kanti Bose and indian consultants in BTRC along with PM advisors and her own son.

Please see the news below who are beneficiaries from Bharati Airtel ill gotten deals. It include Sheikh Hasian son

1)Sajeeb Wajed Joy
2) Sheikh Hasina’s indian born and linked advisor Gowhar Rizvi
3) Sheikh Hasina’s advisor H T Imam
4) BTRC Chairman
5) Mahfuz Anam of Daily star
6) Motiur Rahman of Prothom Alo
7) Toufiq Imroz Khaledi of bdnews24

And many more……



Amardesh Online Edition

Won't disagree with your list except Mahfuz anam of daily star. He's a really educated person connected to top news networks around the globe and comes from a wealthy family. They(D.star) do publish positive news most of the time but that doesn make them biased towards Al. But anyways you never know whats going on behind the scenes.

 

[Gabbar]

Airtel rebrands in Bangladesh

BS Reporter / Mumbai December 20, 2010, 16:09 IST



Bharti Airtel Limited today announced the launch of its mobile services in Bangladesh under the airtel brand.

The airtel brand in Bangladesh will be launched with the brand promise: Bhalobashar tane pashe ane. Chris Tobit, CEO-Airtel Bangladesh said, “The people of Bangladesh are very passionate about their identity, their culture and their language. The airtel brand will represent these values, while retaining the youthfulness and dynamism of the global brand.

Airtel Bangladesh customers will now be able to experience rich multimedia contents with the launch of ‘airtel live’ - the WAP portal offering customers content like Games zone, Video post, Picture post and various other first of a kind VAS such as “Gaan Bolo, Gaan Pao”, Cricket Caller tunes, Classified services and App Central (with 20,000 rich apps).

Airtel Bangaladesh also unveiled a GPS-based Vessel Locating Service to enable tracking of fishing vessels for the fishermen community, in line with the promise of taking mobile telephony into rural areas. Customers in rural Bangladesh can look forward to experiencing many such innovative services in the near future as part of airtel’s focus on contributing towards the vision of Digital Bangladesh.
Airtel Bangladesh has around 4 million customers to date and covers 64 districts in the country.
Airtel rebrands in Bangladesh

 

[Gabbar]

Airtel zooms in on rural Bangladesh
Managing director of mobile giant speaks to The Daily Star

Chris Tobit
Md Hasan

It is "logical" for Bharti Airtel to make a move to enter the low mobile penetrated market of Bangladesh.

"I call it logical as Bangladesh's present mobile penetration is under 40 percent, which clearly means there is headroom to grow," says Chris Tobit, managing director and chief executive officer for Bharti Airtel's Bangladeshi operations.

Drawing from his knowledge of India's telecom market, he differs on the notion that six operators are crowding the market here. In India, more than 10 operators are running operations in the same demographic characteristics.

In an interview with The Daily Star, Tobit aims to make the brand in Bangladesh an "optimal cost producer" of airtime minutes. "We are always trying to value our customers."

After acquiring a 70 percent stake in Warid Telecom, the Abu Dhabi Group's mobile operations in Bangladesh, the Indian telecom giant is now getting ready to launch its services in Bangladesh.

Without revealing all that Bharti is about to introduce to Bangladesh, Tobit says: "Once a customer experiences the Airtel network quality and its value added services, I believe a lot of customers will move from their existing network to us."

The untapped rural areas and tech-savvy youth are the major target groups for the Indian airtime producer.

Bharti's focus to capitalise on the untapped rural market seems slightly offbeat from the workings of Bangladesh market dominated by urban customers. As most telecom operators have already showed their unwillingness to go to rural areas, assuming 'no business returns', Bharti is not ready to go with the divide.

"Every customer is valuable to us," Tobit says. "Our cost model is all about leveraging economies of scale."

Bharti has 121.71 million mobile customers in India, of which, more than 60 percent come from the rural areas.

"The rural parts of India have some disposal income and they surprised us with their ability to adopt telecom product and give us good returns," says Tobit.

The three top players -- Grameenphone, Banglalink and Aktel -- are dominating the six-operator Bangladesh mobile market with more than 90 percent share. Just after Bharti's official debut in Bangladesh, the three operators tied up for infrastructure sharing to expand their network to the rural areas at low costs.

With a seven percent market share, Bharti is set to compete with the giants. Tobit says his company will not focus on the challenges. "We focus on opportunities."

The telecom market in Bangladesh has so many advantages. The median age of the population of the country is about 23 years. The youth will be the focus segment for Airtel in Bangladesh.

Tobit indicates at price and service segmentation for different customer levels.

"What will work for the urban youth will be very different from what will work for the rural farmers," says the Airtel chief in Bangladesh.

Bharti's marketing strategy in Sri Lanka to acquire customers at lower tariff already made other operators contemplate another price war in the market.

"Our efforts as an organisation are on reducing cost per minute at a scale that we can pass benefits to customers."

Because of an extremely effective business model and Bharti's ability to manage costs allows the company to provide value at affordable costs to the customers, he says.

"We are a financially strong company and money for initial investment is already available in Bangladesh."

However, he says Bharti is not a price leader in any market and rather, it focuses on value. "So we like to see ourselves as an optimal cost producer of airtime minutes and certainly we are always trying to value our customers."

On the possible timeframe to commercially launch Airtel in Bangladesh, Tobit says: "We are now only focusing on network expansion, product innovation and market research to find out the needs of customers."

In efforts to launch extraordinary services in Bangladesh, Tobit says, "We are not here to focus on urban Bangladesh alone. We are here to bring life changing products.

 

[divya]

private companies can be forced or lured into spying..google and facebook are private as well..with deep connected links to CIA. Look at the gaint private sector milliatry machine of US.

Serioursly man you should try in