{"id":3917,"date":"2023-11-08T13:15:04","date_gmt":"2023-11-08T09:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/?p=3917"},"modified":"2023-11-08T13:15:04","modified_gmt":"2023-11-08T09:45:04","slug":"telecommunications-ministry-directs-to-reduce-internet-data-package-price-by-november-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/?p=3917","title":{"rendered":"Telecommunications Ministry directs to reduce internet data package price by November 10"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Desk report: The country’s mobile phone operators have been directed to reduce the price of seven-day internet data package prices by November 10, according to Posts and Telecommunications Ministry insiders.<\/p>\n

The development came after customers complained over increased prices for the new seven-day internet packages. On October 15, operators discontinued the previous three-day validity internet packages and introduced the new, more expensive seven-day packages.<\/p>\n

Mobile operators made the changes to comply with the the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission\u2019s (BTRC) instructions to discontinue the three- and 15-day internet packages. Mobile operators maintain that discontinuing the popular three-day package may affect low-income individuals, including students.<\/p>\n

Posts and Telecommunications Minister Mustafa Jabbar\u00a0<\/strong>made known the direction to reduce prices by November 10 after a meeting with top executives of mobile operators recently.<\/p>\n

According to BTRC officials,\u00a0<\/strong>they are working on fixing the same rates for internet packages from all operators. The maximum and minimum prices will be set after collecting and analysing relevant data.<\/p>\n

Leaders of the Association of Mobile Telecom Operators of Bangladesh (AMTOB) have demanded the reinstatement of three-day internet data packages.<\/p>\n

Currently, only seven-day, 30-day, and unlimited packages are available, when around 70% of users prefer to use the three-day packages, they said.<\/p>\n

According to operator sources, Grameenphone’s 1GB 3-day internet package was priced at Tk 46. The new seven-day package costs Tk69 to account for the longer validity. Banglalink and Robi Axiata\u2019s seven-day packages cost Tk68 and Tk69, respectively, while their three-day packages used to cost Tk42 and Tk 48.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, the price of a 1 GB internet package of state-owned operator Teletalk for a validity period of 7 days was Tk27, but now it has increased by Tk 19 to Tk 46.<\/p>\n

Posts and Telecommunications Minister Mustafa Jabbar said operators were told to offer seven-day data packages for the price of three days.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey have been asked to reduce the 7 days\u2019 internet package at the price of the previous three-day packages. This must be implemented by November 10,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n

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Desk report: The country’s mobile phone operators have been directed to reduce the price of seven-day internet data package prices by November 10, according to Posts and Telecommunications Ministry insiders. The development came after customers complained over increased prices for the new seven-day internet packages. On October 15, operators discontinued the previous three-day validity internet packages and introduced the new, more expensive seven-day packages. Mobile operators made the changes to comply with the the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission\u2019s (BTRC) instructions to discontinue the three- and 15-day internet packages. Mobile operators<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3918,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3917"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3919,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3917\/revisions\/3919"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}