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A large part of the people who use smartphones in Bangladesh depend on the mobile Internet for communication, browsing or entertainment. But people’s complaints about mobile internet speed are endless.
Customers complain that if they go underground or to the 12th floor of a building, they no longer get their operator’s network. Once again, you have to face the same complication in many districts outside of Dhaka. Therefore, most of the packages you buy are wasted when the connection is lost or the internet speed is reduced.
Internet speeds in Bangladesh are more fragile than in Ethiopia and Somalia. And in South Asia, Afghanistan has slower internet than just Bangladesh.
BBC Bangla has published a special report on this, citing the Global Index released in January by the popular speed measurement website Speedtest.
According to the report, Bangladesh is ranked 137th in the mobile internet speed survey of 140 countries. Which is one step behind last year.
Maldives is the most advanced country in South Asia. The country ranks 45th.
So Myanmar is in seventh position. Nepal is ranked 114. Pakistan is ranked 118, four steps behind. Sri Lanka is in position 120. India is ranked 131. And Afghanistan is in last position 140.
The UAE is at the forefront of mobile internet speeds. The country’s mobile Internet speed is more than 163 Mbps. It is followed by South Korea, Qatar, China, Saudi Arabia, Norway, Kuwait and Australia. The mobile internet speed in those countries is more than 100-160 Mbps.
And the mobile internet speed in Bangladesh is only 10.56 Mbps.
And in India 12.41 Mbps and in Pakistan about 16 Mbps.
That’s why the speed is low, what are the authorities thinking?
The Minister of Posts and Telecommunications, Mostafa Jabbar, said that the number of subscribers in Bangladesh’s mobile operators is less than the amount of spectrum or radio waves they use.
“Suppose an operator has 60 million subscribers. But they have a spectrum allocation of only 36 MHz. Where they were supposed to be subscribers, it was like 100 MHz. This radio wave is the backbone of the mobile network. correct, nothing will be fine “”.
Bandwidth usage in Bangladesh has doubled in the last year. But the ability of telecommunications companies to cope with this, that is, the use of their radio waves, has not increased by that proportion.
Because of this, customers are not getting the desired internet speed, the minister said.
“It took us 24 years to go from 2G to 3G,” he said. 5 years after the arrival of 3G in 2013, we arrived at Forge in 2016. In 2019, the operators have done some preparatory work. Due to the coronavirus in 2020, the work to expand the network did not go that way.
The Minister of Posts and Telecommunications said that most of the people in Bangladesh do not have Forge phones, but this is one of the reasons why they are deprived of this Internet service.
Organization of auctions on spectrum allocation
Spectrum or wireless waves through mobile Internet. Now an auction for the allocation of new spectrum is being organized next Monday (March 8) to increase the speed of this mobile Internet. Officials say they expect Internet service to improve starting next month after operators buy the required spectrum at the auction.
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