Mobile phone outshines land phone in daily use
Wednesday, 19 May 2010
FHM Humayan Kabir
The country's 48.3 per cent households use mobile phone while only 2.2 per cent use land phone in their daily life, a survey of the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) has said.
The BBS has showed the data in its "Welfare Monitoring Survey 2009", which has been disclosed recently.
The mobile phone users in Bangladesh, one of the poorer countries in the world, are growing sharply. In last one year, the country maintained over 16 per cent growth in mobile phone use.
Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC), a state-owned telecom body to oversee, said the country's total mobile phone users have reached 54.7 million in March 2010.
On the contrary, the land phone user growth is very poor as the state-owned phone line provider --Bangladesh Telecommunications Company Ltd-- has failed to attract people in using their services.
On the other hand, the private sector mobile phone companies have been able to maintain a boom in their service expansion offering different facilities.
BBS has conducted the Welfare Monitoring Survey (WMS) to collect some core welfare indicators for assessing the country's poverty situation, excluding the income and expenditure dimension of poverty assessment.
The state-owned statistical department has utilised the Integrated Multipurpose Sampling Design to conduct the study where it covered 8,400 households in the rural areas and 5,600 households in the urban areas across the country.
The survey showed only 1.9 per cent households have had computers. In rural areas only 0.5 per cent people possess the computer and the number in the urban area is 6.4 per cent.
The BBS said 40 per cent households in the country have television or radio.
The literacy rate of male is 58.9 per cent while the female literacy rate is 50.4 per cent, the survey said.
The BBS survey revealed that 34.4 per cent households have availed credit facilities in 2009. Out of the borrowers, 48.1 per cent take loan from the non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and 37.1 per cent from their friends and relatives.
About the poverty situation, the WMS survey said based on the self-assessment by the respondents reported 31.9 per cent are poor and 9.3 per cent are extreme poor.
The survey revealed that 34.1 per cent households are in the breakeven on the poverty line, it said.
The country's 48.3 per cent households use mobile phone while only 2.2 per cent use land phone in their daily life, a survey of the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) has said.
The BBS has showed the data in its "Welfare Monitoring Survey 2009", which has been disclosed recently.
The mobile phone users in Bangladesh, one of the poorer countries in the world, are growing sharply. In last one year, the country maintained over 16 per cent growth in mobile phone use.
Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC), a state-owned telecom body to oversee, said the country's total mobile phone users have reached 54.7 million in March 2010.
On the contrary, the land phone user growth is very poor as the state-owned phone line provider --Bangladesh Telecommunications Company Ltd-- has failed to attract people in using their services.
On the other hand, the private sector mobile phone companies have been able to maintain a boom in their service expansion offering different facilities.
BBS has conducted the Welfare Monitoring Survey (WMS) to collect some core welfare indicators for assessing the country's poverty situation, excluding the income and expenditure dimension of poverty assessment.
The state-owned statistical department has utilised the Integrated Multipurpose Sampling Design to conduct the study where it covered 8,400 households in the rural areas and 5,600 households in the urban areas across the country.
The survey showed only 1.9 per cent households have had computers. In rural areas only 0.5 per cent people possess the computer and the number in the urban area is 6.4 per cent.
The BBS said 40 per cent households in the country have television or radio.
The literacy rate of male is 58.9 per cent while the female literacy rate is 50.4 per cent, the survey said.
The BBS survey revealed that 34.4 per cent households have availed credit facilities in 2009. Out of the borrowers, 48.1 per cent take loan from the non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and 37.1 per cent from their friends and relatives.
About the poverty situation, the WMS survey said based on the self-assessment by the respondents reported 31.9 per cent are poor and 9.3 per cent are extreme poor.
The survey revealed that 34.1 per cent households are in the breakeven on the poverty line, it said.