Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has stressed importance on improving the quality of internet services as it now part and parcel of everyday life.
The prime minister said this while inaugurating the 3G network of Grameenphone in remote Dahagram and Angorpota of Lalmonirhat district through a video conference from her Gonobhaban residence on Wednesday, reports BSS.
“ICT is being used extensively for socioeconomic development of the country. So its demand is also increasing gradually. In view of this, it is required to enhance of the speed of internet and other digital services,” she said.
The prime minister said there was no digital telecommunication anywhere in Bangladesh except in some parts of Dhaka and Chittagong before her party took office in 1996.
The Awami League government gradually brought the whole country under digital telephone network.
She said it was also the Awami League government which opened up mobile phone in the private sector breaking the monopoly of a BNP businessman.
She extended thanks to Grameenphone for choosing a remote area of the country for their service, saying once people of Dahagram and Angorpota lived like islanders.
"Now they have 24-hour communication facility and 3G services are going there, which will surely play an important role in socioeconomic development of the area," she emphatically said.
