Jon Eddy, Head of Emerging Markets, VimpelCom, Banglalink’s parent company along with Mr. Zunaid Ahmed Palak, State Minister for ICT, Government of Bangladesh has visited country’s first digital incubator which was established as a private public partnership to nourish the local entrepreneurial talents in developing digital solutions for a true digital Bangladesh. During this visit Mr. Erik Aas, CEO, Banglalink and Taimur Rahman, Corporate and Regulatory Affairs Officer, Banglalink were also present at the occasion.
This initiative has helped the young entrepreneurs to create their own platform for small and medium business startups. Digital Bangladesh has always been the goal of Government and country has already witnessed several revolutionary initiatives which have been driving us...
Axiata Managing Director/ President and Group Chief Executive Officer (GCEO), Tan Sri Jamaludin Ibrahim has urged Robi talents to lead the company’s drive towards delivering on Axiata Group’s vision of becoming the Next Generation Digital Company by 2020.
He made this appeal to the Robi talents over an inspirational session that took place recently at a city hotel. Axiata’s Managing Director/ President and GCEO recently visited Bangladesh along with the Axiata Senior Leadership Team members to review Robi’s business operations.
Axiata’s CEO for the South Asian Region, Dr. Hans Wijayasuriya; Group Chief Talent Officer,

Robi officials have bid farewell to their immediate-past Managing Director and CEO, Supun Weerasinghe at an employee townhall event held on Tuesday evening, 1 November 2016.
On that evening, Supun handed a cricket bat to Mahtab Uddin Ahmed, the company’s first Bangladeshi Managing Director and CEO. The cricket bat had “From Lankan Lion to Bengal Tiger” inscribed on it, marking the completion of the smooth succession at Robi’s top leadership position.
Supun will return to Dialog Axiata Plc, Sri Lanka's premier connectivity provider in the

Bangladesh’s first ever merger proposal of two mobile phone operators - Robi and Airtel - has got the final approval from the telecom regulator.
Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) in a meeting today cleared the proposal terming it as a “positive move” for the telecom industry of the country, BSS reports.
Talking to BSS, BTRC Chairman Dr Shahjahan Mahmood said they have approved the merger

proposal as it is in line with the consent of the High...
Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) on Monday issued a notice asking all mobile phone subscribers not to provide personal and biometric SIM registration-related information to fraudsters seeking over phone.
According to the notice, fraud/criminal gangs are taking away customers’ personal and biometric SIM-related information, and PINs of mobile financial accounts, including bKash, through making phone calls and sending SMSs in the name of BTRC officials and different

mobile phone operators, reports UNB.
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edotco Group (“edotco”) has been conferred the “2016 Southeast Asia Telecoms Tower Company of the Year Award” by Frost & Sullivan in a ceremony held at the Conrad Centennial Hotel, Singapore last Thursday.
The award is part of the annual Frost & Sullivan Asia Pacific Best Practices Awards ceremony that acknowledges companies that excel in their business segments as well as their efforts to develop the industry for the year 2015.
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Satish Lele, Vice President, F...