Cabinet approves bandwidth export deal with India

Cabinet today approved an agreement with India to export 10 gigabits per second bandwidth to Tripura, a northeastern state in India.

As per the three-year agreement to be signed between Bangladesh Submarine Cable Company Ltd and Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd, Bangladesh will export the bandwidth by Tk 9.42 crore per year, Cabinet Secretary M Musharraf Hossain Bhuiyan said.

He was talking to reports after the regular cabinet meeting at the secretariat with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the chair.

BSNL will purchase 10 Gbps initially and will increase the amount gradually, Bhuiyan said.

Bangladesh's submarine cable, whose lifetime will end in the next 12 years, has a bandwidth capacity of 200 Gbps, while it sells only 30 Gbps, Bhuiyan said adding that Bangladesh would get another undersea cable of around 1,300 Gbps by December this year.