The Dhaka Times Desk The government has suffered a loss of Tk 1200 crores due to the distribution of free airwaves to Airtel. There are some corrupt officers behind it. News from internet sources.
The news of the online news also said that in the case of airwave allocation of other mobile operators of the country, fixed rate fee is charged, but there is an exception in the case of Airtel. And it has been mentioned in the news that there is corruption behind this exceptional incident. The issue of irregularities in the allocation of airwaves also came up in the audit report issued by the office of the Comptroller General of Audit (CAG) recently regarding the airwave allocation of BTRC.
Meanwhile, Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission Chairman Sunil Kanti Bose told reporters at Jatiya Sangsad Bhavan on June 9, "I don't know anything about this."
According to reports, on December 20, 2005, the then Warid Telecom granted GSM cellular mobile telecommunication services operator license to incumbent Airtel for 15 years. At this time, BTRC collected 50 million US dollars or 330 crore 75 lakh 55 rupees for the license fee.
At that time, BTRC's GMS (Global System for Mobile Communication) 1800 MHz band allocated 15 MHz free of charge for 15 years to this company. The cost of each megahertz wave is 80 crore rupees. And as a result, the price of 15 MHz waves fell to 1200 crores. Due to the allocation of this wave for free, the government has suffered a loss of Tk. 1200 crores.
BTRC collected Tk 591 crore from Grameenphone Limited against allocation of 7.4 MHz spectrum, Tk 208 crore against allocation of 2.6 MHz spectrum from Orascom Telecom (Banglalink) and Tk 160 crore against allocation of two MHz spectrum from Aziata Bangladesh Limited (Robi).
It may be noted that BTRC formulated the 'Spectrum Pricing Policy' in 2005. Following this, in 2008, BTRC charged Tk 80 crore per MHz wave.
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