OnMobile Global rose 1.42% to Rs 35.65 at 11:55 IST on BSE after the company said it has signed an agreement with Robi Axiata in Bangladesh to deploy various ringback tone and interactive voice response solutions. The announcement was made during market hours today, 9 July 2014. Meanwhile, the S&P BSE Sensex was down 36.94 points or 0.14% at 25,545.17. On BSE, so far 11.67 lakh shares were traded in the counter as against average daily volume of 10.76 lakh shares in the past two weeks. The stock hit a high of Rs 36.30 a...

Bangladesh ended May with 38.93 million internet subscribers, compared with 37.17 million at the end of the previous month. The mobile internet base reached 37.41 million, up from 35.64 million in April, according to figures from the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC). The number of fixed-line internet users totaled 1.23 million, almost flat compared with the previous month, while the number of Wimax subscribers amounted to 291,385 by end-May, compared with 296,204 at end-April.

Bangladesh’s mobile phone subscribers topped 116 million at the end of May, with about three million new users in the first five months of this year, official data showed Wednesday. According to Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC), the total number of cell phone users in the South Asian country of about 153 million people reached 116.24 million at the end of May 2014, Xinhua reported. The latest BTRC data showed the number of subscribers of the country’s six cell phone operators—Grameenphone, Banglali...

Intertek, a leading quality solutions provider to industries worldwide will soon launch a comprehensive testing facility in Bangladesh to support the RMG industry in South Asia in view of the growing business volume. Bangladesh is the world’s second largest exporter of RMG with contribution on USD 21.5 billion in 2012-13* amounting to nearly 80%* of the total exports and is therefore an important hub for the Softlines business. The lab will be a One-stop testing facility for all quality and safety assurance solutions across industry players in South Asia for countries like India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal and Bhutan.