BTTB decision
Shafqat, Seattle, USA
BTTB recently announced their decision to include 15 more countries in the flat rate of Taka 7.5 calling framework. This service has been extremely successful since its introduction in early 2004 and will now include the calls to China, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, Brunei, Switzerland, Norway, Sweden, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxemburg, Ireland, Spain, Greece and Austria in addition to the earlier countries - United States, Canada, England, France, Italy, Germany, Australia, Malaysia, Singapore and Hong Kong.I am surprised that none of the Middle East or Gulf countries are included in the programme where most of the migrant Bangladeshi workers are residing. They are also remitting their hard-earned salaries to Bangladesh boosting our foreign currency reserve to record levels. It would only be a nice gesture to them and their families at home to offer the flat rate service to the Middle East and this will surely give a boost to BTTB revenues as well. Lastly, why is the government not taking any initiative to bring Internet Telephony into the legal framework? They themselves are availing the facilities to give us this low rate service - and numerous other local and international operators are using that as well. These companies are thus evading tax for their business and BTTB in turn is losing millions of dollars. The government should thus incorporate Internet Telephony into a taxable business framework immediately and enforce regulations to boost its tax and revenue earnings.
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