Mobile phone recharge dealers demand compensation
Saturday, 9 October 2010
FE Report
Mobile phone recharge businessmen have demanded immediate compensation of their loss due to sudden shutdown of four local telecom companies by the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) early this year.
They threatened that if they did not get compensation immediately they would go for tougher action.
They made their demand through a human chain, held in front of the National Press Club Friday, organised by Bangladesh Mobile Phone Recharge Business Association (BMPRBA).
BMPRBA members claimed that about 0.4 million businessmen faced a loss of nearly Tk 2.0 billion due to sudden shutdown of four local telecom companies including Rangs Tel, Dhaka Phone, National Phone and People's Tel, as a huge quantity of cards, recharge amount and phone sets remained unused now.
"The four mobile companies assured us that they would win their case against the government and the companies would run again; so we had been waiting for the opening of those companies. But now, we see no hope," said the association president Md. Aminul Islam Bulu.
Mobile phone recharge businessmen have demanded immediate compensation of their loss due to sudden shutdown of four local telecom companies by the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) early this year.
They threatened that if they did not get compensation immediately they would go for tougher action.
They made their demand through a human chain, held in front of the National Press Club Friday, organised by Bangladesh Mobile Phone Recharge Business Association (BMPRBA).
BMPRBA members claimed that about 0.4 million businessmen faced a loss of nearly Tk 2.0 billion due to sudden shutdown of four local telecom companies including Rangs Tel, Dhaka Phone, National Phone and People's Tel, as a huge quantity of cards, recharge amount and phone sets remained unused now.
"The four mobile companies assured us that they would win their case against the government and the companies would run again; so we had been waiting for the opening of those companies. But now, we see no hope," said the association president Md. Aminul Islam Bulu.