State Minister for Post and Telecommunications Tarana Halim has said internet services may slow down between Oct 24 and Oct 26 due to repair work on submarine cables.
She said this on Sunday when addressing the inauguration of Aparajita, a free Teletalk package designed for women, at the Secretariat in Dhaka.
The state-run mobile phone operator Teletalk will distribute some two million Aparajita SIM cards for free among women as part of the government’s pledge to empower them and improve their living standards, the state minister said.
She also said the Aparajita users would be able to purchase a one-GB internet package at Tk8 and a two-GB package at Tk14 for three months after subscribing to the Aparajita package.
In reply to journalists’ query, Tarana said the state-run operator is incurring losses due mainly to its limited network facilities.
“We have already started working on this. We expect that the Teletalk network facilities would be improved across the country, particularly at the district level, by June of the next year,” she said, adding that they would be able to expand the network up to the upazila level once Tk610 crore allotted for a network expansion project of the operator is released.
She also alleged that the Finance Ministry has not yet released the money although the project was approved twice by the Executive Committee of the National Economic Council.
The article was first published on banglatribune.com
Thursday, June 04, 2026
