Mobile Internet in Bangladesh: A new trend!

Internet is now very popular in Bangladesh. Bangladeshis first started to use internet in early nineties. Now internet service is available in every district of Bangladesh. Outside major cities like Dhaka, Chittagong, Sylhet, Rajshahi people usually use Dial-up internet service. In Dhaka, Chittagong, Sylhet people usually use broadband internet service.

Although Bangladesh is now connected with the international submarine cable consortium, internet speed is still very low. A few kbs download speed is really poor comparing international standard. BTCL is the largest govt' internet service provider in Bangladesh. They provide both dial-up and broadband service. Private ISPs usually provide broadband internet service now, some ISPs still provide dial-up service though.

Out of two types of internet service a new type of internet service is emerged in Bangladesh. That is mobile internet service. All the mobile phone service providers now offer Wap and mobile internet service. Average cost for 1 kb download is BDT. 0.02 Some cell phone companies now offer internet modem. GrameenPhone offers USB EDGE/GPRS internet modem to use in both Desktop and Laptop computers. Citycell offers ZOOM CDMA internet modem.

Mobile internet is a new trend in Bangladesh. Educated people from all over the country now use mobile internet. If a person have a GPRS or EDGE enabled mobile set he can use internet and join the world of web easily. The major advantage of mobile internet in Bangladesh is that a subscriber can use internet from anywhere of the country where mobile network exist.

Largest mobile phone company Grameenphone also provide wap based contents by their wap site. Users can download favorite contents from GP wap site at a fixed cost. Cellbaazar is a new concept of e-commerce which is very popular in Bangladesh. By using Cell phone a subscriber now can trade at Cellbazaar and earn money.

3G and WiMax service will be introduced soon in Bangladesh. These technology can bring revolution in mobile internet service in Bangladesh.

Mobile Market in Bangladesh

Mobile market in Bangladesh has been grown rapidly in last few years. But the growth has been slowdown in the first five months of 2009. Decline in growth is believed to be due to high tax (Tk 800) on SIM. The total number of mobile phone customers was 46.50 million in April 2009. There are six mobile companies are operating in Bangladesh. They are Grameenphone, Banglalink, Aktel, CityCell, Warid and TeleTalk.

Grameenphone (GP) owned by Norwegian Telenor, is the largest mobile phone provider which has 21.02 million customers in April 2009. GP has extensive network coverage all over Bangaldesh. TeleTalk is the only state run mobile phone operator which has average call rate as low as Tk. 0.66 per minute to any operator where the average call rate in Bangladesh is around Tk. 1.00 per minute. Only CityCell, which is the oldest of six, provides CDMA service and rest five provide GSM service.

Online Shopping and Cell phone marketing in Bangladesh!

Internet and mobile phone bring revolution in communication and online marketing in Bangladesh. Online shopping specially marketing via cell phone is getting popular in Bangladesh. The biggest success in this new concept is cellbazaar! It is a new craze in online and cell phone shopping and trading business. It's an initiative of Grameenphone. It's a brand now.

Revolution in mobile phone give the prospective traders trade at this site. Everything is now available at this site. Anyone can shop at cellbazaar via cell phone. Even a person in remote area of Bangladesh can now shop at this bazaar. It is like usual e-commerce site. Anyone can add and sell products of various categories old and new at this site. Payment is made to the respestive sellers by the buyers. It's popular business of young people. People can buy good things at relatively cheaper rate.