The Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission or BTRC, however, has given the operator 15 days to defend itself on what it should do and what it should avoid as an SMP, according to a letter sent to the Grameenphone on Tuesday. The BTRC declared Grameenphone an SMP on Feb 10 and slapped some restrictions on the telco, including its advertisement campaigns. Robi accounts for 30 percent of the total users, Banglalink makes up 22 percent and government-run Teletalk has 2.5 percent subscribers. Restrictions can be clamped on an operator once it accounts for 40 percent of the subscribers, annual revenues or allocated spectrum, according to the SMP regulations. The Grameenphone had questioned the restrictions and said the purpose of the directives must be to build competition, not defeat success.

Source: bd News24 March 20, 2019 16:52 UTC