BTTB's mobile
Abu Saeed Khan, On e-mail
Further controversy shrouds over the cellular mobile project of Bangladesh Telegraph and Telephone Board (BTTB), as the government has approved its $76 million equipment purchase contract. Last Sunday, the PM office is reported to have sought clarifications on the corrupt practices in this deal. The state-controlled telecom monopoly, meanwhile, has advised its contractors to commence site survey. Siemens of Germany and Huawei of China will jointly roll out the nation-wide mobile network to initially serve 250,000 users. The service is targeted to be launched by this year-end. BTTB took 20 months to finalise these two vendors selection for supplying the infrastructure of public sector mobile service. Besides widespread media criticism, the ruling party cabinet members had also officially objected to BTTB's vendor selection procedure. BTTB's own board members had also officially opposed this procurement plan. But it was still okayed!
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