PeoplesTel ropes in Jamuna Future Park in largest telecom deal
Sunday, 9 August 2009
FE Report
Private land-phone operator PeoplesTel said it has secured a deal to provide 31,000 telephone connections to the Jamuna Future Park, set to be the third largest shopping mall once it kicks off in 2010.
Nurul Islam Babul, chairman of the mall's parent company Jamuna Group and TIM Nurunnabi of PeoplesTel signed the agreement--- claimed to be the single largest telecom deal in the country --- in the capital on Saturday.
Under the agreement, PeoplesTel would start providing telecom connections to some 2,000 shops at Jamuna Future Park, the group's sister companies housed at the mall and other corporate offices from September this year.
"It's the largest ever corporate telecommunication deal signed in the country, covering voice, data and fax facilities," TIM Nurunnabi, chairman and managing director of the land-phone operator, told reporters.
PeoplesTel is the country's first private land-phone operator, with over 100,000 subscribers --- second to the leader RanksTel.
The private land-phone operator will also provide sentex facilities, hosted call-centre solution, data centre solution, video surveillance, customised living billing, software development and data connectivity facilities to the corporate giant, said TIM Shaniur Nabi, PeoplesTel's head of R&D.
He said shoppers and visitors would enjoy twenty-four-hour high-speed Internet facilities inside the mall under the deal.
Hasanul Huq Inu MP, chairman of parliamentary standing committee on telecommunications affairs, spoke on the occasion, urging the government to create ground for local companies so that they can lead the country's telecom sector.
The lawmaker thanked the Jamuna Group for showing courage to start a mega project like JFP with its own money.
He said: "We can do anything if there are infrastructure facilities. The present government has to build the required infrastructure within its tenure."
Jamuna Group chairman Nurul Islam said there are many entrepreneurs in the country who can invest billions of taka. "But they need support and nurturing from the government."
"Scopes should be given to businessmen to boost investment, production and export and generate employment."
Former chairman of Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission Margub Morshed, journalist Ataus Samad, president of National Press Club Shawkat Mahmud and editor of The Bangladesh Observer Iqbal Sobhan Chowdhury also spoke on the occasion.
Private land-phone operator PeoplesTel said it has secured a deal to provide 31,000 telephone connections to the Jamuna Future Park, set to be the third largest shopping mall once it kicks off in 2010.
Nurul Islam Babul, chairman of the mall's parent company Jamuna Group and TIM Nurunnabi of PeoplesTel signed the agreement--- claimed to be the single largest telecom deal in the country --- in the capital on Saturday.
Under the agreement, PeoplesTel would start providing telecom connections to some 2,000 shops at Jamuna Future Park, the group's sister companies housed at the mall and other corporate offices from September this year.
"It's the largest ever corporate telecommunication deal signed in the country, covering voice, data and fax facilities," TIM Nurunnabi, chairman and managing director of the land-phone operator, told reporters.
PeoplesTel is the country's first private land-phone operator, with over 100,000 subscribers --- second to the leader RanksTel.
The private land-phone operator will also provide sentex facilities, hosted call-centre solution, data centre solution, video surveillance, customised living billing, software development and data connectivity facilities to the corporate giant, said TIM Shaniur Nabi, PeoplesTel's head of R&D.
He said shoppers and visitors would enjoy twenty-four-hour high-speed Internet facilities inside the mall under the deal.
Hasanul Huq Inu MP, chairman of parliamentary standing committee on telecommunications affairs, spoke on the occasion, urging the government to create ground for local companies so that they can lead the country's telecom sector.
The lawmaker thanked the Jamuna Group for showing courage to start a mega project like JFP with its own money.
He said: "We can do anything if there are infrastructure facilities. The present government has to build the required infrastructure within its tenure."
Jamuna Group chairman Nurul Islam said there are many entrepreneurs in the country who can invest billions of taka. "But they need support and nurturing from the government."
"Scopes should be given to businessmen to boost investment, production and export and generate employment."
Former chairman of Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission Margub Morshed, journalist Ataus Samad, president of National Press Club Shawkat Mahmud and editor of The Bangladesh Observer Iqbal Sobhan Chowdhury also spoke on the occasion.