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Mobile internet services disrupted amid BNP rally in Faridpur
Local people have claimed that they are facing disruption in mobile internet services in the district since 10 am on Saturday, ahead of the BNP’s divisional rally in Faridpur.
Mobile phone users said that they are unable use mobile internet since morning.
AB Siddique Mithu, convener of press sub-committee of BNP’s Faridpur Divisional rally, said, “The government is trying to hinder the rally but their ill efforts will not see success.”
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Thousands of leaders and followers of the BNP and its associate bodies have turned out for the party's rally in Faridpur, overcoming various obstacles and a bus strike that began on Friday morning.
The rally, organised by Faridpur district unit BNP, formally began at 11am onKomorpur Abdul Aziz Institution premises, around 6km away from the district town.
3G, 4G mobile internet services restored after 11 hours in Dhaka
The 3G and 4G mobile internet services have been restored in Dhaka division after 11 hours of being suspended since Friday morning.
Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) through an email asked to restore the 3G and 4G services around 4pm in Dhaka division, said officials of the operators.
The service was restored in Barishal division at 5pm, at 6pm in Khulna, and at 7pm in Sylhet, Mymensingh, Rajshahi, and Rangpur as per the instruction of BTRC. However, it was not mentioned when the mobile service would be restored in Chattogram division.
Read:3G, 4G mobile internet services ‘suspended’ in Bangladesh
Earlier, cellphone users were largely unable to use the internet through mobile data as mobile internet speeds in the country have been awfully slow since Friday morning.
Contacted, mobile operators told the UNB correspondent that the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) has directed them through a notice to keep the 3G and 4G mobile data services suspended across the country from Friday 5am until further direction.
As UNB sought his comments, Posts and Telecommunications Minister Mustafa Jabbar said the 3G and 4G mobile internet services have been suspended due to some technical glitches.
3G, 4G mobile internet services ‘suspended’ in Bangladesh
Cellphone users are largely unable to use the internet through mobile data as mobile internet speeds in the country have been awfully slow since Friday morning.
Contacted, mobile operators told the UNB correspondent that the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) has directed them through a notice to keep the 3G and 4G mobile data services suspended across the country from Friday 5am until further direction.
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As UNB sought his comments, Posts and Telecommunications Minister Mustafa Jabbar said the 3G and 4G mobile internet services have been suspended due to some technical glitches. “The services will go back to normal as soon as the issues are fixed,” he added.
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Mobile internet speed increases only by 15 percent in Bangladesh, one-fourth of global average
In the last one year, global mobile internet speed has increased by 59.5 percent while in Bangladesh it has increased by 15.38 percent only, which is about one-fourth of the global average, revealed a recently published Global Index by Ookla.
According to the data presented in the index, the average download speed of mobile internet in the world in July 2020 was 34.52 megabytes per second (Mbps). In July this year, which increased to 55.07 Mbps.
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Meanwhile, the average download speed of mobile internet in Bangladesh in July last year was 10.92 Mbps which has increased slightly to 12.6 Mbps by July, this year.
However, Bangladesh is ahead in the rate of broadband internet speed is compared to how worse the average is than the global average in the mobile internet index.
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Compared to July last year, the speed of broadband connectivity in the world has increased by an average of 31.87 percent in July this year. In Bangladesh alone, the growth rate is 42.59 percent.
Bangladesh’s position in the Ookla Mobile Internet Speed Index has always been at the tail-end places. Like in June, Bangladesh was at number 135 in July. However, in the June report, Bangladesh was at 135 out of 137 countries, and in July, it was out of 139 countries.
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The Ookla report provides a comparative picture of the average Internet speed in many countries around the world. After analyzing the data for one month, they publish the report in the middle of the next month. According to the latest report published in July, the average speed of mobile internet in Bangladesh was 12.6 Mbps, whereas the global average speed was 55 Mbps.
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