State Minister for Post and Telecommunications Tarana Halim today assured that there will be no bar on Facebook as proposed – for six hours every midnight.

Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) contradicts government’s initiative of blocking social networking site Facebook from midnight to 6:00am every day and mentions four alternative measures.

Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission decides to allow Grameenphone a new number series of 013 with their existing 017 prefix which is close to be exhausted.

Internet users in Dhaka city may face more telecommunication blackouts at midnights and holidays as telecom regulatory authorities are going through more exercises in any particular area of the capital.

Mobile operators association urges the government to withdraw the tax burden over mobile usage like supplementary duty and surcharge on all services.

Long awaited telecom merger between Robi and Airtel is deferred once again as the parent companies delayed their agreement till September 26, 2016, according to reports.

Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) announces that 'mobile number portability' (MNP) service will begin at the end of this year.

Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) directs operators to block all roaming SIMs if their customers fail to biometrically re-register their connection within seven days from the date of their arrival .

Subscribers using biometrically unregistered SIM cards will have their outgoing calls blocked after today, while incoming calls are likely to stay active for “a few hours”, according to a top official of a telecom operator.

Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) launches a call center where telecom subscribers will be able to register any telecom related complaint.

State Minister for Posts and Telecommunications Tarana Halim summons CEOs of all mobile phone operators to know about the update of the call drop compensation to the customers.

People put up with the repeated messages and calls from customer service on their mobile phones, but continue to silently endure all, while producing a few hundred ingenious memes to vent their frustration.

Facebook provides users’ information to the Bangladesh authorities for the first time upon its request about 31 users’ accounts in between July and December last year.

Unlike a real-world office, a business website is up and accessible to customers 24 hours a day. Customers will always get to know about the products and services on offer, freeing them from the compulsion of office hours. Businesses can even have a 24-hour product sales mechanism online.

Europe begins to roll out a data superhighway in orbit above the Earth. The first node in the network is a telecommunications satellite that was launched from Baikonur, Kazakhstan.

Mobile operator Robi says they need 12 months for completion of the merger with Airtel to become the second largest mobile operator in the country, while the High Court asks the government to explain in four weeks as to why it should not be directed to assess the market impact of the proposed merger.

The government has ordered blocking popular social networking platform Facebook and online messaging and calling services WhatsApp and Viber this morning.

Cyber café owners threaten to enforce a “digital hartal” across the country by shutting down internet services to realize their six-point demand.