FourG in January

After receiving the final approval of the Prime Minister's Office, the telecommunication department got the licenses and wave auction rules of the telecom sector.
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FourG: Conversion fee reduced in 'technology neutrality'

Four G in December, the expected income of Taka 11 billion

State Minister for Telecommunication Tarana Halim said they are hoping that the service will be introduced in January.

But the government has been giving some relaxation on conditional terms to the demand of mobile phone operators to fix the 'technology neutrality' or any technology to use any technology.

The mobile operators will have to pay a fee of $ 4 million per megahertz, if they do one step to transform wave 'technology neutral' allocated earlier. And partial conversion costs $ 7.7 million.

In a press conference on Wednesday, the state minister said this information at an 'emergency' press conference.

He said, "After the approval of the Prime Minister, the revised policy came to the telecommunication department on Wednesday. Now there is some formalities left. Hopefully, we will be able to start the 4G services from January. "

BTRC has sent a draft of the FourG license and sent it to the post and telecommunication department in May. Later, he went to the Prime Minister's Office for final approval.

Fourth license will not be auctioned. You can apply for a fixed amount by submitting a license.

Operators will have to pay five lakh as application fee. To get the license 10 million taka The annual renewal fee will be 5 crore taka.

The operators will have to pay Tk 150 crore for the license. Revenue sharing will give government 5.5 percent of the income

The operators will have to take part in the auctions to get the 4G wave allotted. The fundamental price for a thousand 800 MHz wave auction has been fixed at $ 30 million per megahertz. And the three-thousandth of MHz 000 MHz is priced at $ 27 million and the MHz per megahertz is $ 30 million.

To get technology neutrality in the allotted allocation for 2G and 3G services (so that the wave can be used in any technology) will be charged for every MHHR.

Tarana Halim said the operators on the issue of the Four-Z attracted 23 issues. In October, a meeting was held in the telecommunication department with the Prime Minister's Information and Communication Technology Advisor Sajeeb Wazed Joy in a meeting with the operators.

The BTRC had decided before, to pay a cost of 7.7 million dollars to the operators in the MHz wave for technology neutrality.

But the rule has been changed, the state minister said if the waves of 1800 and 900 MHz were converted in one step, then it would be worth four million dollars. However, partial transformation would cost $ 7.55 million.

Grameenphone has a total wave of 32 MHz, in addition to the T-Z 900 and 1800 MHz band and the 2100 MHz band of 3G. Besides, Banglalink has 20 megahertz and statewide Teletalk has 25.2 megharts.

After the integration of Robi and Airtel, the amount of Robi wave stood at 39.08 megahertz But after integrating, the BTRC is asking to return 5 MHz wave from Airtel.

Tarana Halim has said that the demands of operators in the Four-G license policy have been taken into consideration, while the introduction of the four-wheeler speed is 20 megabits per second (MBPS). BTRC will be able to change the speed of time from time to time, the scope has been kept in the policy. In the previous policy, the minimum 100 MPBs were talked about.

Call records were reduced to two years, which was proposed for 12 years. Without the need of outsourcing, the regulatory body's permission will not be required to serve the operators. Operators can set up fiber optic cable for network development.

Postal and Telecommunications Secretary Shyam Sunder Sikder and senior officials were present at the press conference.