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  Volume: XX, Issue No. 02 September 1-15, 2010  
     
 
  BANKING & COMMERCE
  Twelve ISPs to use underground cables

Dhaka : 12 internet service providers (ISPs) signed an agreement with Summit Communications Ltd (SCL), a sister concern of Summit Group recently to have access to the underground fibre optics network of SCL in Dhaka city.

This will ensure security of connectivity, unlimited bandwidth capacity and which will help Dhaka city get rid of a huge mess of overhead utility wires.

The 12 ISPs are Agni Systems Ltd, Grameen Cybernet Ltd, Link3 Technologies Ltd, Optimax Communications Ltd, CITech CyberNet Ltd, Aamra Network Ltd, Prisma Digital Network Ltd, Access Telecom (BD) Ltd, Information Services Network Ltd, Always On Network Bangladesh Ltd, ConnectBD Ltd and Dhakacom Ltd.

SCL, a nationwide telecommunication transmission network (NTTN) service provider, initially plans to establish an underground optical fibre network of 100 kilometres in the Dhaka metropolitan within the next 6-8 months, said Md Arif Al Islam, managing director of the company.

Earlier the Government decided to take overhead cables which are used to provide internet and cable television services underground to free Dhaka from a tangle of cables from sight.

In Dhaka, more than 10 lakh internet users are connected through overhead cables. Additionally, around 3.5 lakh television viewers are also connected with overhead cable to the television networks.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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