HT Imam, political advisor to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, yesterday said he will actively press for policy reformation for co-location of towers owned by mobile operators.
“It will free the operators from being bogged down with the construction and maintenance of the mobile towers. Once they are free of those, they can concentrate on their services,” Imam said while speaking at the inauguration of International Infrastructure Summit organised by Edotco Bangladesh Ltd at Pan Pacific Sonargaon Hotel in the city.
The advisor said the tower business should not burden the operators any more.
“It should be given to a third party who has specialisation in tower construction and maintenance.”
He said for a small country like Bangladesh which has land scarcity, co-location of mobile towers would be a very good solution.
“We have too many towers in our country. When I travel around the countryside, I see new towers popping out every now and then,” he said, adding that instead of separate towers, co-location of mobile operators’ tower would be a better solution.
Imam said instead of mobile operators, a designated third party should be given the responsibility of infrastructure management.
In his address, Hasanul Haq Inu, minister for Information, emphasised the potential of companies like edotco and how the vision of Digital Bangladesh may come true with the assistance of such companies.
Steve Weiss, chief financial officer of Indonesia-based Tower company, Portilendo, presented the keynote paper at the seminar and discussed various issues about tower management.
