The Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) last month issued an expression of interest (EoI) for the interested parties to conduct test drives on mobile phone operators’ services countrywide, including the metropolis and cities. The tentative timeline for the test drive to measure QoS is likely to be set sometime between May and October. The interested firm/lead firm must have minimum two years' experience of measuring QoS of mobile operators through drive test, according to the eligibility criteria of the BTRC. This is the first time the BTRC is going to outsource the QoS test drive service as earlier the QoS tests were conducted in metropolises by the commission. All the four mobile phone operators, however, were found to be providing 4G internet services below the BTRC benchmark.

Source: Dhaka Tribune March 17, 2020 09:00 UTC