Bangladesh, March 25 -- Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) on Wednesday stopped operations of private land phone operators RanksTel and DhakaPhone again on their failure to provide the lists of subscribers.
Zia Ahmed, Chairman BRTC the telecommunication regulator of the country, told newsmen that the land phone operators could not give them the lists of subscribers.
RanksTel and Dhaka Phone stand accused of being involved in illegal call termination through Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP).
The BTRC permitted the companies on Tuesday to resume operations on the condition that a list of customers would be provided.
Within a difference of 10 minutes of resumption, BTRC shutdown operations of Rankstel and DhakaPhone. "We started operation at 3:00 pm. At 3:10 pm BTRC shuts down our operation", an official of Rankstel said.
He said that BTRC did not give any time limit to the companies to submit the subscribers' list. "Giving out the number of subscribers will be possible if we could start our operations ", he said.
The officials said the BTRC shut down the Rankstel without prior information like the previous time.
On March 14, the telecom regulator seized a huge number of VoIP equipment from DhakaPhone office that led to shutting down the switch room of the telephone operator.
Five top officials of the phone operator were also arrested on March 15 in this connection.
The BTRC, with the help of Rapid Action Battalion, conducted a 12-hour raid at RanksTel offices at Eskaton and Tejgaon on Thursday and shut down its operations.
RanksTel subscribers have since remained off telephone network.
With 2,88,272 subscribers throughout Bangladesh, Ranks Telecom Ltd is the largest private fixed line operator.
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