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IDCOL, BRAC Bank to finance IGW services

Thursday, 25 December 2008


IDCOL (Infrastructure Development Company Ltd) signed a dollar loan agreement with Bangla Trac Communications Limited for setting up International Gateway (IGW) Services in Dhaka. Under the agreement, IDCOL will provide US$ 3 million financing to the project. BRAC Bank Limited is the other lender to the project that extended a loan of Tk 610 million.
BTCL, as one of the four licensed operators of IGW, routes incoming and outgoing international calls to and from Bangladesh, says a press release.
The IGW of BTCL which has a capacity of handling 20,000 concurrent calls at a time, supports voice call services, both clear channel and VoIP.
Md Mosharraf Hossain Bhuiyan, Additional Secretary of ERD and Executive Director-cum-CEO of IDCOL and Tarique E. Haque, Managing Director-cum-CEO of Bangla Trac Communications Limited signed the loan agreement on behalf of their respective companies.
Other officials of BRAC Bank and IDCOL were also present on the occasion.