Showing posts with label internet bangladesh. Show all posts
Showing posts with label internet bangladesh. Show all posts

Monday, February 4, 2008

Bangladesh is using only 10% of available bandwidth

According to reports published in local news papers, Bangladesh is using only 10% of available bandwidth for internet. Last year Bangladesh got connected with sub-marine optical fiber line spending about 5000 million local currency (Taka).
But we the Bangladeshis are stupid enough to use only 10% of available bandwidth. Bout government policy and the ISPs are responsible for the situation. Government has reduced fee for bandwidth from this month (February 2007) by 40%. But it is still to high. Price for bandwidth should be further lower by at least 75% so that at least 60% of band width are used.
Although the government is reducing the fee I doubt whether general people will get any significant benefit of it. The ISPs are not interested to buy more bandwidth as they are doing good business buying very limited bandwidth.
We must remember that a lot of renowned ISPs were involved in illegal VoIP business in the past. They just want their profit. They don't have any commitment to the society.
Bangladeshi internet users are victim of out dated government policy and evil motives of the ISPs. In fact ISPs are also controlling the government policy.

Sunday, January 13, 2008

Dream for a speedy net connection

A speedy net connection is only a dream to me. I normally get only 2-6 KBps speed which is very poor in all consideration. Following image shows my internet speed when tested:



Now Bangladesh is connected with fiber optics cable line. Then why internet line is still so slow? Who are responsible: the ISPs or the government? Perhaps both. High price set by the government to purchase bandwidth bars the ISPs to purchase sufficient bandwidth. On the other hand there is not enough competition among the ISPs. Our ISPs have very poor infrastructural facilities. None (or may be a few) of them provide 24hr customer support although internet is an emergency service. They just want to make as much profit as possible with little investment. So they aren't purchasing enough bandwidth. In most of the cases they don't have expert manpower in their team. So when a technical fault happens it takes long time to fix the problem.