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The average net speed of mobile operators in People's Republic of Bangladesh is that the lowest among the near South Asian countries. The speed is ten mbps (mega bits per second) in those countries except India, whereas solely five mbps in People's Republic of Bangladesh.
GSM Association, the organisation of mobile operators round the world, in its recently revealed report titled ‘Bangladesh: Country Overview’ has underlined the poor condition of net speed in People's Republic of Bangladesh.
The report, however, aforementioned the speed might increase this year as People's Republic of Bangladesh initiated 4G services in last Gregorian calendar month.
Secretary general of the Association of Mobile medium Operators of Bangaldesh (AMTOB), TIM Nurul Kabir, aforementioned that net speed would increase this year with the initiation of 4G services.
According to the report, People's Republic of Bangladesh is that the fifth largest mobile user country in Asia Pacific region with eighty five million distinctive subscribers. however just one in 5 Bangladeshis signed to mobile net services in 2017, despite 3G networks covering in far more than ninetieth of the population.
As of 2017, seventy one per cent of the mobile net subscribers were still victimization 2G services, report says.
The report underlines lack of frequency spectrum and poor infrastructure because the main reason for the slow net speed.
According to the report, Bangladeshi mobile operators had to pay high costs for the frequency spectrum in 4G spectrum auction command in Gregorian calendar month 2018, which might leave the operators with lack of frequencies.
Poor infrastructure in rural areas is additionally an enormous reason for slow net association in People's Republic of Bangladesh. Operators show lack of interest in building infrastructure in rural areas because it isn't thought of financially profitable, says the report.
The report acknowledged sharing infrastructure as well as base transceiver station and fibre optic network among the mobile operators would possibly improve the infrastructure.
Telecommunication analysis institure Learn Asia’s senior policy fellow Abu Sayed Khan aforementioned sharing infrastructure may be a common apply worldwide. however People's Republic of Bangladesh has created sharing fibre optic infrastructure illegal . This apply has unfree People's Republic of Bangladesh in hands of foreign mobile operators.