After a profitable subject trial, the state-owned cell phone community Teletalk and the non-public cellular operator Banglalink introduced this week a pilot program for a brand new ‘Energetic Sharing (Roaming)’ service to share telecom infrastructure, aiming to enhance community and buyer expertise.
Introduction of Energetic Sharing (Roaming)
TelecomTalk reported in November final yr that Banglalink and Teletalk had initiated a subject trial of roaming providers to reinforce protection in sure areas of the nation. At the moment, the operators stated within the first section, postpaid voice and SMS providers in particular areas had been being examined.
This initiative will now enable Teletalk subscribers to seamlessly swap to the Banglalink community in areas with protection gaps, enabling Teletalk to reinforce its protection and repair high quality via Banglalink’s community infrastructure inside these areas, in accordance with native media experiences citing an official press launch.
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The State Minister for Posts, Telecommunications, and Info Expertise introduced this service on the Independence Day occasion on the Bangladesh Laptop Council (BCC) Auditorium within the ICT Tower, Agargaon.
Reportedly, through the two-month pilot interval, 2,000 chosen Teletalk postpaid and pay as you go subscribers can have entry to the Energetic Sharing (Roaming) service, having fun with seamless Voice, SMS, and Information Companies via Banglalink’s 4G community throughout Bangladesh.
This marks the primary time in Bangladesh’s historical past that two telecom service suppliers have collaborated to actively share community infrastructure, the native media experiences stated.
“This settlement empowers Teletalk subscribers to utilise our community, that includes over 16,000 towers nationwide. Lately, we’ve doubled our community protection nationwide,” Banglalink stated, noting that its 4G subscribers grew by 24.5 % to twenty million.
Trying forward, upon the profitable completion of the piloting, Banglalink and Teletalk will collaborate on the nationwide industrial launch of the Energetic Sharing (Roaming) service within the days forward.
Banglalink Receives Unified License
Earlier in March, Veon reported that its subsidiary serving Bangladesh, Banglalink, had obtained a unified license from the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Fee (BTRC).
The newly issued license combines present authorisations to make use of 2G, 3G, and 4G requirements, making Banglalink’s licenses technology-agnostic throughout these three generations, and it will also be used for the rollout of future applied sciences, Veon stated. This simplifies and streamlines license renewal to a single course of.
This unified license additionally facilitates the energetic sharing of infrastructure assets between operators, offers clearer pointers on knowledge retention, provides extra readability relating to the audit interval, and rationalises varied charges and prices, the corporate stated.
