The Bangladesh government is likely to cut Internet-access rates by 50 percent, in a bid to boost the country's ICT industry.
Bangladesh Association of Software and Information Services (BASIS) earlier urged the government to reduce the tariff by 75 percent. "Even after 50 percent reduction, we have to pay more than 10 times compared to the rates in India," said Shameen Ahsan, joint secretary of BASIS.
Home and business users are discouraged by the high cost of bandwidth and subscription fees, that are levied by a majority of the local ISPs in Bangladesh.
According to insiders, the number of Internet users is roughly 450,000.Via Xinhua
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