Bangladesh’s telecommunication regulator has served separate show cause notices to Citycell and Mango Tele Services Ltd about allegations of guideline violation against the companies.
According to the notice, Citycell, a mobile phone operator, provided optical fibre to Mango, a telecom service provider, which caused a breach of infrastructure sharing guideline.
As per clause-4.7 of the guideline, a mobile phone operator is not allowed to lease any optical fibre to a telecommunication service provider.
Besides, Mango is operating its activities in Dhaka-Chittagong, Dhaka-Sylhet, Dhaka-Rajshahi and Rajshahi-Khulna route by taking lease of a pair of dark optical fibres.
The company has also laid network equipment violating the clause 4.2.3 of International Terrestrial Cable (ITC) license guideline.
According to BTRC guideline, telecommunication operators, except the Nationwide Telecommunication Transmission Network (NTTN) licensees, will not be given permission to build optical/weird backbone transmission network, if such networks of NTTN operators are already available there.
BTRC said Mango even had not taken any approval from the regulatory body.
To arrange optical fibre connectivity (OFC) from TCLC (Terrestrial Cable Landing circuit) to any other location of Bangladesh as per infrastructure sharing guidelines with written prior permission of the commission is necessary before setting up a dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) to provide any data service.
DWMD is a technology that puts data from different sources together on an optical fibre, with each signal carried at the same time on its own separate light wavelength.
Earlier, BTRC also issued a show cause notice to a mobile phone operator for setting up optical fibre in violation of the same guideline.
