Bandwidth export to India is going to be inaugurated formally tomorrow morning, as both the countries have already established commercial connection through Akhaura-Agartala frontier.
Import of electricity from India will also be inaugurated on the day.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her Indian counterpart Narendra Modi would launch the much-talked-about bandwidth export and power import by Bangladesh through video conference.
Sheikh Hasina would click the button for inaugurating the 10 GBPS Internet bandwidth while Modi would switch on the button of supplying 100 MW power.
"We've already established commercial connection and Prime Ministers of both countries would open the transmission of bandwidth formally through video conference tomorrow morning," Managing Director of Bangladesh Submarine Cable Company Limited (BSCCL) Monwar Hossain told BSS today.
Initially, India is consuming 10 GBPS bandwidth for its north-eastern state of Tripura, which may increase in future as per necessity, he added.
State Minister for Posts and Telecommunications Tarana Halim, Secretary Faizur Rahman Chowdhury and officials concerned would present at the ceremony.
BSCCL, which is responsible for managing bandwidth for the country, started trial transmission in December last year and fixed all technical glitches.
Both the countries established linkage on November 16 as optical fibre of Bangladesh Telecommunications Company Limited (BTCL) was connected with its counterpart in India at zero point on the Akhaura-Agartala border.
During Indian Prime Minister Norendra Modi's visit to Bangladesh, the state-owned BSCCL struck a deal with Indian state-owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) for exporting bandwidth.
According to the agreement, BSNL would import 10 GBPS bandwidth for Tripura state from September this year, but the export had been fixed one month ahead in August. Later, the deadline was missed due to incomplete preparation, especially from Indian side.
The payment would have to be made at the beginning of each quarter and Bangladesh will earn Taka 9.6 crore a year by exporting bandwidth to India.
The deal is for a year and it can be extended for two more years, said BSCCL officials. They also informed that bandwidth price will be reviewed after a year.
Meanwhile, two more Indian states- Assam and Meghalaya, have shown interest in importing bandwidth from Bangladesh.
The BSCCL, which manages the country's lone submarine cable having over 200 gbps bandwidth, has the capacity to export bandwidth up to 50 gbps after meeting domestic demand. Now, Bangladesh is consuming only 33 per cent of the total bandwidth. The country's demand for bandwidth may reach 210 gbps by 2021.
Besides, Bangladesh will be connected with second undersea cable by 2016 to get another 1300 gbps bandwidth.
Since the lifetime of Bangladesh's submarine cable will end within the next 12 years, there is no other alternative to exporting bandwidth.
Source: BSS.
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