GP plans new services

Bangladesh's largest private mobile operator Grameenphone (GP) is planning new services to increase its Internet users to 50 million within five years. It is working on special programmes to supply 3G-enabled mobile handsets and various mobile applications and contents to pursue the goal. Vivek Sood, Chief Executive Officer of Grameenphone, said this while speaking with journalists at the GP House in the city on Thursday. He spoke on an array of issues. Sood, who took over as GP CEO last year, believes data business has a bright future in Bangladesh. He also suggested that telecom regulator BTRC should announce a roadmap and prepare an investment policy for new technologies like 4G and LTE. In mid-September, GP became Bangladesh’s first mobile company to have 50m subscribers. It holds a 42 per cent market share of the country’s mobile users. The GP has introduced 3G services in 64 districts as the first mobile operator in the country under its ‘internet for all’ programme, according to bdnews24.com.