Bangladesh Telecommunication Company Limited will give land phone connections to new clients free of cost marking the ‘Mujib Year’, the birth centenary of founding president Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
The decision came at a meeting at the post and telecommunications division attended by Prime Minister’s ICT Affairs Adviser Sajeeb Wazed Joy. The offer being initiated as the government looks to bring users back to wire-connected telephony and give a try to the struggling Bangladesh Telecommunications Company Ltd.
The offer will start with immediate effect from 22 October and will continue throughout the year of 2020, confirmed by Posts and Telecommunications Minister Mustafa Jabbar.
Considering that BTCL’s monthly line rent of Tk 180 had been withdrawn earlier, users could talk over land phone to other land phone numbers for Tk 150 per month while calls from land phone to mobile telecom operators would cost Tk 0.52 per minute.
Currently, the connection and re-connection fees are Tk 1,000 in Dhaka, Tk 500 in Chattogram, and Tk 300 in other parts of the country.
Currently, there are less than 6 lakh active land phone connections in the country, whereas the total capacity is more than 13 lakh, according to BTCL.
