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May 1st, 2007 at 6:05 am
I have posted this Topic on my Blog already
http://journey2infinitive.blogspot.com
I post it here as well as License Model-
Our Regulatory Board BTRC should Know the type of License. ISP license is already been assigned and if I am not mistaken VOIP opening bill had been passed.
As Voip is the Part of Telecommunication I don’t find any thing wrong to use this technology.
Now where is the Problem of Regulatory body? Problem is Any mode of Call should be routed through BTTB Gateway. Any international Operator can use it By traditional point to point
Satellite IPLC , Via Cable or Via Public Ip(Voice Over Internet protocol).So as the issue is to
Monitor every call is Via BTTB Gateway so all Ip traffic is monitored.
Now Voip is the System where 70% Telco cost is reduced. Even China is Migrating their full system to VoiIp from TDM.
BTRC has to keep one thing in mind that this is the era of Perfect competition. They are not
the regulatory body of BTTB only. They have to see the interest of Public .
Because this Communication system is related to very much in every sector of Bangladesh.
Now BTRC Can follow the Model of IDA (info com Development Authority of Singapore).
Basically IDA has different Category.
Here I will discuss about the very two basic Category-
1) SBO Class : This is the license you can use only the wholesale of the minutes no pree paid activities. Traffic can be gone via public IP only. This license never allow to make any cable connection and Retail facilities . this Cost only 250 sgd (1 usd= 1.48 sgd).
This is the life long facilities. Company Must be private limited or Limited Liability Partners ship
(LLP).After Financial Year when Company submits the accounts then Income Tex is decided
by the Govt not IDA (As BTRC) or SINGTEL( As BTTB). In this license you don’t need to go internet Exchange
2) SBO Individual: Through out this License one can go for Retail operation and pree paid service, Inter connection via Cable means you can do calling card, call back and every thing
company must have paid up capital of 100k SGD and 5000 Sgd is license fee and Can renew
every year in same price. SBO operators can rent E1 connection from Sing Tel,Star Hub also
Bandwidth. There are Data centers of Sing Tel, Equnix ,StarHub where operator can host their system.
So are Sing Tel and Star Hub running after the other operator to share their revenue?
Or appoint Police with IDA to run after the operators.
They are buying from Local Tier2. Retail Players( Calling Card Companies) are buying Routes from Tier1 like Sing Tel.
Besides Tier1 has their own Card and all.
In that Case Both Govt and private sectors are getting revenue.
So I think We should Implement such Model asap to save this industry.
May 1st, 2007 at 6:07 am
Please Visit this
http://journey2infinitive.blogspot.com/
License Model Thread. on Telecom license.
Please Express your Ideas also.
May 1st, 2007 at 6:21 am
Syed Iskandar becomes the Vice President of BNP. Here all of us Speaking about the Democracy and Family Dynasty .
My opinion is that If Sheikh Hasina even gave
a single small post of the party to Sheikh Rehana , our intellects, Journalist every
one is Crying about family dynasty? My question to all Blogers ” DOES AL NEEDS MORE TRANSPARENCY THAN BNP TO THE PEOPLE
OF COUNTRY? IF IT IS WHY? THEN DO YOU HAVE
ANY RIGHT TO BALANCE AL AND BNP IN SAME WEIGHT?”
http://www.prothom-alo.org/index.news.details.php?nid=NjE5MQ==
May 1st, 2007 at 6:44 am
(Dear Admin, I hope this qualifies as something important. Hopefully it’s nothing but a false alarm! Please move this if it’s in the wrong section.)
Bomb blasts in 3 Bangladesh railway stations. I’m putting up fresh news links on my blog as long as I’m awake. If you’re there or are watching Deshi channels, please keep me updated through the comments section. Thanks. http://dhakashohor.blogspot.com/2007/05/breaking-news-bomb-blasts-in-dhaka.html
May 1st, 2007 at 7:06 am
I wrote about the possibility of Sayed Eskander being BNP acting chair in blog about two weeks ago.
In fact the rumor that has been going around the inside world was like that KZ forced into exile, Sayed Eskander acting BNP chief, Gen Mashud U Chow Army chief, And general Moeen U Ahmed possibly leading the King’s party. [ This are all from unmentionable sources, can't substantiate my claims with sources names].
And KZ handing over party chairmanship to Sayed Eskander may not necessarily be voluntary.
May 1st, 2007 at 11:08 am
Rumi Bhai,
The scenario you outline implies that the King’s Party will not be the implications.
1. Suppose AL remains united, then where will King’s Party derive its supports from?
2. Does this mean the King’s Party = AL? If the blogosphere is any guide, this doesn’t seem at all likely.
3. So does it mean King’s Party = part AL part BNP (plus part new faces)? A bit of Bangladeshi nationalism with a dose recognising Bangabandhu?
If this is so, then the playbook is more than fight-corruption a la Ershad, it also includes the politics of synthesis a la Zia-ur-Rahman.
May 1st, 2007 at 11:23 am
Dear Admin, how can I post a new thread here on DP ( Unheard voice )? There must be some proceedings please let me know, thanks in advance.
May 1st, 2007 at 11:34 am
oops, the 1st sentence should read: The scenario you outline implies that the King’s Party will not be BNP.
May 1st, 2007 at 11:48 am
Jyoti
To me it looks like ideas are coming and plans are being made on an as needed basis.
And I am not sure after (1) 4/25 and (2) as you pointed out after the new EC rule of 3 years abstinence, (3) Drop out of Yunus, (4) Policy shift of donor nations, and (5) exposure of the power of BNP-AL alligned NRBs; whether the king’s party theory is still alive.
And definitely Mannan Bhuiyan, Tofael, Razzak kept unusually quite and SS Gupta, Lutfuzzaman Babar started talking all the nice words. From all the indications, it seems that the original plan may have been a BNP 3.0 ( while JP was BNP 2.0).
May 1st, 2007 at 4:29 pm
Rumi Bhai Actually I am really confused
Incident of last some months. Basically
in the industry there is always contingency
analysis.but It seems some where there is a
desperate force which has simply made us an
aimless nation.
Basically you know what is our biggest problem ? Proxy war between political and Non Political force.
So we really don’t have idea of Road map of
Next two years.
Basically decision making is not depended on
A, B and C. Now even P Q and R are taking decisions-
just some examples
1) Price of Daily commodity- Uncontrolled.
2) Law and Order- Worst ( Even Thieves has
access in the home of Deputy High Commissioner of India
3) Judiciary- Still not Independent
4) Election Commission- No Road Map
5) Telecom Industry- Ship without Captain
6) Electricity- Horrible
But Politician vs non politician stupid games are going on.
what I am feeling People like M&M Duo are
enjoying their sudden power and we will be sandwiched.
are on
May 2nd, 2007 at 5:23 am
Tanoy,
Your problem list is good, but these are not result of 4 months of CTG. These issues should have been resolved since 1971, and have been worsening since then.
Important result is not that these chronic (long term) problems have been FIXED by CTG in 4 months (can it be possible?), but the MOST celebratory result is that STEPS have been taken to TRY and resolve them.
Did the previous 3 regimes take ANY action to resolve or even address them?
May 2nd, 2007 at 7:32 am
So Gazi what do you mean by that?They will seat Ideal . I think This the problem of you
Guys always wants to take worse and worst instance last Govts
I remember BNP leaders had a tendency that
if some one asked question they had ready
answer this has been happened in AL time.
so our pro -Non Political leader KGazi has
same problem.
Instead of Wasting time on lots of Non Issues they should concentrate more on Public issue . If M&M duo did not waste time
on showbiz business of the name of so called
clean up ,they might get it done in 3 months even.
May 2nd, 2007 at 10:56 am
Some thoughts on the inflation situation - I have no way of backing any of this with conclusive evidence, but would like to hear your thoughts.
In a market economy, prices of individual goods rise and fall all the time. That’s how the market works. If prices are too high, it means supply is lagging demand, new businesses enter and prices fall. Sometimes prices rise because of seasonal reasons - the price of petrol rises around the western world during Easter as everyone drives around, the price of eggplant rises in Bangladesh during Ramadhan as everyone eats beguni for iftaar. This kind of seasonal price rises are not inflation, nor are they necessarily a problem.
Price hikes could also happen because sudden shocks to supply - floods destroying crops, or political instability. And then you could have higher prices because of cartels. But neither shocks nor cartels should by themselves lead to continuous or rising inflation (inflation being the rate at which prices rise).
If the problem in Bangladesh is price hikes because of the political problems or cartels, then this should eventually ease. But my understanding of the data is that the problem is one of inflation - that is, it’s not that prices are higher today than last month (or what we think the prices should be), it’s that prices continue to rise every month.
In most countries, this would be a sign of an overheated economy. An overheated economy is where the economy’s ability to grow is outstripped by its demand for goods and services. An economy can grow by one of 2 ways - either by increasing inputs (machines, skilled labour, finance, unskilled labour, land, energy) or by increasing productivity (new technology, innovation etc). If the demand for goods and services in the economy rise so fast that it runs out of inputs, or if there are bottlenecks so that some crucial inputs are missing, then the extra demand leads to general rise in price levels. Once people expect prices to rise, they increase their demands today, and prices rise even more. So you end up with inflation. (I’m grossly simplifying, but I don’t want this to be a lecture on economics).
Is this what’s happening in Bangladesh? As I said at the beginning, I have no way of backing this. However, there are widespread concerns that India is overheating dangerously. There are fears that China and some Asian economies have been overheating since 2004. So it might not be too implausible that Bangladesh may have been overheating, and this has been happening for a while.
The electricity shortage is a sign of this. An oft-cited statistics is that Bangladesh’s economy has grown by a quarter in the past four years while there has been no rise in power generation. If the overheating hypothesis is correct then there should be other tell tale signs too — shortage of skilled labour, import of goods that didn’t need to be imported before, fall in inventory etc. Are any of these happening in Bangladesh?
There are some strong implications of the overheating hypothesis. First, there is no quick fix to inflation if this is the case — breaking up cartels or special markets won’t solve the problem. The economy will need to slow to a sustainable pace of growth. Second, this means that we are not capable of growing at 7% a year. Maybe after we’ve done all the reforms we will be, but as things stand, this means that we probably cannot manage anything beyond 5-6% a year.
So much for the theory. It would be great to hear from people who know the data well to unpick the theory.
May 2nd, 2007 at 11:10 am
Poorland,
Currently there is a group of writers who write for DP. In the last couple of months, we have started inviting writers from the comment posters to write as well. Jyoti and Amer, the newest addition to our writing group, used to be regular commenter. We look at three things:
1. Adherence to human rights and progressive ideals
2. analytical thinking and clarity in writing.
May 2nd, 2007 at 7:24 pm
Tanoy,
You have to ultimately face the reality that AL was as useless in governance as in opposition, especially if you expect CTG to solve all BD problems in “3 months” !
I am not saying this to upset you or anything, as an anti-AL comment, or to defend the CTG against AL, but face the facts, and you will see the reality was that none of the items in your #10 were addresed by AL (or BNP), because of an incessant disturbance with antagonistic politics, which was totally anti-national.
Hartal and Boycott were AL’s (”political”) weapon to derail and disrupt the nation’s economy, so that BNP could not claim any success in governance. The result was a failed parliament, a failed democracy and a failed nation.
Is that the kind of politics and kind of leadership (Hasina) you are proud of? Is that what you would like the nation to continue - or do you ever dream of a change?
May 3rd, 2007 at 7:33 am
The law ministry has selected a private law firm, owned by the law, justice and parliamentary affairs adviser, Mainul Hosein, as the legal adviser to the state-owned Petrobangla for arbitration with Canadian Niko Resources.
http://www.newagebd.com/front.html#3
NEW AGE, 03 May 2007
…Isn’t this blatant nepotism/conflict of interest?
May 3rd, 2007 at 3:42 pm
Moin #16, yes - I believe this could be a major conflict of interest, like the selection of Dick Cheney’s previous company Halliburton for Iraq contracts, even though USA allowed that to continue.
However, I am relieved to hear in the same article Mainul Hossain says:
“I have not signed any such proposal of selecting my firm. If my firm has been selected [by Law ministry], I am assuring you that it will not engage itself in the arbitration process.’
May 6th, 2007 at 3:59 am
Folks,
I am writing about a 5 year old girl named Asma in Sylhet,Bangladesh. Asma is diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia. She needs bone marrow transplant as soon as possible to continue living.
Her parents are impoversihed and cannot afford her treatment expenses.
I have set up a blog to collect donation for her treatment.
I would like to ask Drishtipat members to help this child in any way possible.
Thanks.
May 9th, 2007 at 5:44 pm
Tough BBC interview of Fakhruddin where he proclaims that he is in charge
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/6639019.stm
Any one has the video ?
July 18th, 2007 at 12:37 pm
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Hello everyone. I would like to write few words about how people get treated when they visit the Bangladesh consulate in New York . I am not sure whether I can start a new discussion about this or from where I can post. Admin.. please advice.
My intention is to get everyones opinion after I post it… Thanks