This document provides an overview of BTCL's telecommunications services and infrastructure in Bangladesh. Some key points: - BTCL is the largest fixed telephone service provider in Bangladesh with over 1 million subscribers nationwide. - It provides various telephone and broadband internet services across the country, including landline, ADSL, and dial-up internet. - BTCL operates international gateways and owns fiber optic networks and exchanges that it uses to provide services like leased lines, co-location, and infrastructure sharing. - It also manages Bangladesh's country domain name and provides value-added services for its subscribers. In summary, the document outlines BTCL's role as the major provider of fixed telecom

1. Marketing Cell, BTCL.
Bangladesh Telecommunications Company Limited

2. BTCL is the largest fixed telephone service provider
1 mil.
subscribers
countrywide

4. PSTN Scenario
Telephone Capacity: 13.7 lac
Telephone Connection: 9.9 lac
Upazillas Covered: 456
Growth Centres Covered: 25
Total Exchanges: 693
Monthly average income per
telephone was Tk 356 in June,
2011.
 RODS (Replacemnt of Old Digital
Telephone System ) Tel. 239072; ADSL
35000

5. Telephone Call Charge for Local/ Nation Wide Dialing (NWD)

BTCL to BTCL Tk. 0.30 /min 8AM-8PM
(Local/ Nationwide)
Tk. 0.10 /min 8PM-8AM
BTCL to other Landphone Tk.0.80 /min
(PSTN) / Cellphone
Line Rent Multi Exchange Area Tk. 160
(Dhaka, Chittagong, Khulna)
Zilla Sadar Tk. 120
Upazilla & Growth Centre. Tk. 80 Monthly
Monthly Free Call (BTCL to 50 unit
BTCL)
Effective from:01 July 200926 October 2012 :

6. Capacity /Connection
Region Capacity Connection Usage
Dhaka City 565409 465821 82%
Rest of Dhaka 158359 105644 67%
Chittagong 241240 164093 68%
Sylhet 78894 46909 59%
Rangpur 93408 55917 60%
Rajshahi 67824 43803 65%
Khulna 121020 86593 72%
Barisal 39232 21714 55%
Total 1365386 990494 73%

7. Value Added Service
(Not available in all Exchanges)
Service Charge
Hotline Tk. 200 /Month
Conferencing Tk. 100 /Month
Call Forwarding Tk. 50 /Month
Call History (Call details) Tk. 50 /Month
Call to Busy Subscribers Tk. 50 /Month
Wake Up Alarm Tk. 50 /Month
Don't Disturb Message Tk. 30 /Month
Absence Message Tk. 20 /Month
Call Waiting Tk. 20 /Month
Abbreviated Dialing Tk. 20 /Month

8. IN based Value Added Services:

9. Free Phone Service (FPS):
 This is BTCL’s toll free phone service. FPS subscriber
pays bills of incoming calls. So the callers can make
free call to an FPS number.
This service is suitable for different service providers,
enterprises, customer care centers and call centers,
where people can make calls free of cost.
In June 2011, there were 7 FPS subscribers, whereas
the capacity was 500. Revenue collected from FPS
subscribers in 2010-11 was Tk 1.8 lac.

10. Pre-Paid Telephony (PPT):
The PPT (Prepaid Telephony) Service enables the
subscriber to transfer the balance of a Prepaid Card to
the account of a telephone number.
When subscriber makes Prepaid Phone call by this
telephone, the call will be charged to the prepaid
account of this telephone number.
In june 2011, there were 71 PPT subscribers whereas
the capacity was 10,000.
Revenue collected from PPT subscribers in 2010-11
was Tk 0.7 lac.

11. Pre-Paid Service (PPS):
The PPS service allows a user to make any call (local,
Nationwide or International) from any telephone set
by using a scratch card.
This call will be charged to the card number (account
number in IN system) and will not be included in
telephone bill.
Pre-paid cards of Tk 200 and Tk 500 are available in
Dhaka GPO, City Banks, Dhaka Banks and Basic
Banks. Revenue collected from pre-paid card sale in
2010-11 was Tk 12.3 lac.

12. Data & Internet Services:

13. Narrowband and Broadband
All the
telephone
subscriber of
BTCL can enjoy
dial-up Internet
service

14. Click2Net:
 Dial-up Internet is available from BTCL telephone in
all over the country. Telephone line is engaged when
user is logged in internet.
User has to dial 0101234 and log-on with user ID: bcl,
password: btcl. Highest speed is 56Kbps,
Theoretically. This service allows low speed internet
access to 1 million subscribers in all over the country.
Charge is same as voice call charge, that is Tk 0.30
per minute.

15. Broadband over legacy copper wire.
 Technology : ADSL
I can talk while
my brother can
 Access network is copper
serf the net.
based.
 In 42 district cities and 12
upazila towns over copper
cable access network using
ADSL technology
 Capacity /Connection: 47,000
/12,000
 Brand : Bcube
Thanks
 Speed: 236 kbps / 512 kbps / 1 to
mbps ADSL.

19. Blink:
 Broadband link is provided through DDN (Digital
Data Network), which is spread throughout 73
locations in 41 District head quarters. The service is
suitable for point to point 64Kbps to 2Mbps dedicated
data communication line. This service will be
discontinued in future as newly introduced VPN
provides higher speed at much lower cost

20. IPLC (International Private Leased Circuit):
BTCL provides IPLC backhaul from Cox’s Bazar to
any domestic location in the country and also local
loop from BTCL exchange to customer premise.

21. IPLC costing
Local Backhaul Wet Segment Cost Distant Backhaul Cost
 IPLC cost has 3(three) / 4(four) cost segment
 Total cost = Backhaul cost at local end + wet-segment (through
SMW4 submarine cable, under the sea) or satellite segment cost
(half or full circuit) + backhaul cost at the distant end.
 At present IPLC through SMW4 submarine cable is more popular
than that of Satellite as the cost through submarine is much more
cheaper.
 In Bangladesh end SEA-ME-WE-4 is owned by BSCCL and backhaul is
owned by Backhaul Service Provider license holders by BTRC and
BTCL is one of them.

22. IPLS
•IPLC: International Private Leased Circuit
• IPLC is used for data and corporate voice of an international
company, offices destined in two countries e.g. Huawei has its corporate
office at Shenzhen, China and Dhaka, Bangladesh. They can apply for,
say 2 Mbps, IPLC between Shenzhen and Dhaka
• IPLC can not be connected to any PSTN network.

23. Total Cost for E1 from Banani, Dhaka to Paris, France
Local Backhaul Cost
a) Banani to Mohakhali – Provided by local backhaul service provider (A)
a) Mohakhali to Cox’s Bazar CLS (BTCL)
i) OTC or NRC
Registration fee =Tk. 5000/=
Installtion Charge = Tk. 10,000/=
ii) MRC (without discount)
Say, distance between Dhaka and Cox’s Bazar 425km
0-25 km =Tk. 4000/=
26-50 km @ Tk 165= Tk. 165x25 =Tk. 4125/=
51-100 km @Tk. 140= Tk.140x50 =Tk. 7000/=
101-200 km @ Tk. 105= Tk.105x 100 =Tk. 10500/=
201-300km @ Tk. 63 = Tk. 63x100 = Tk. 6300/=
rest 100 km @ Tk. 21= Tk. 21x100 = Tk. 2100/=
Total = Tk. 34,025/=

24. c) Cox’s Bazar CLS to Marseilles CLS (SMW4)
OTC or NRC
Registration fee = US$285 or BDT 20,000/=
Installation Charge = US$300 or BDT 21000/=
MRC (Monthly Recurring Charge)
US$ 1701 or BDT 119070/=
d) Distant Backhaul Charge (D)
Total costing (NRC)for E1 from Banani, Dhaka to Paris, France
NRC = A(NRC)+ Tk.15000+Tk.41000+D (NRC)
Total costing (MRC) for E1 for Banani, Dhaka to Paris, France
1) for backhaul = BDT 34025/=
2) For full circuit = BDT117070/=
3) For distant backhaul= D (MRC)

25.  c) Cox’s Bazar CLS to Marseilles CLS (SMW4)
 OTC or NRC
 Registration fee = US$285 or BDT 20,000/=
 Installation Charge = US$300 or BDT 21000/=
 MRC (Monthly Recurring Charge)
 i) for half circuit = US$ 1134 or BDT 79380/=
 ii) for full circuit =US$ 1701 or BDT 119070/=
 Note : For half circuit, France telecom (FT) will charge for half circuit
 d) Distant Backhaul Charge (D)
 Total costing (NRC)for E1 from Banani, Dhaka to Paris, France
 NRC = A(NRC)+ Tk.15000+Tk.41000+D (NRC) for full circuit
 NRC= A(NRC) + Tk.15000+Tk 41000+ NRC for FT+D (NRC) for half circuit
 Total costing (MRC) for E1 for Banani, Dhaka to Paris, France
 1) for backhaul = BDT 34025/=
 2) for half circuit = BDT 79380/= + MRC for FT for half circuit
 3) For full circuit = BDT117070/=
 4) For distant backhaul= D (MRC)
 d) Backhaul cost for distant end (D)

26. OSS
OSS (One Stop Shopping) agreement can be
signed between two parties.
If there is OSS agreement between exists between
BTCL and BSCCL, subscriber may contact with
any of BTCL or BSCCL.
BTCL or BSCCL will invoice the total amount to
the subscriber adding mark-up and after
collecting the total amount one will keep its own
share and give the partners share to its partner

27. Backhaul Cost
For BTCL there are two cost segment of backhaul charge.
One Time Charge (OTC) or Non-recurring Charge (NRC)
which includes
 Registration charge and
 Installation charge.
Monthly Recurring Charge (MRC).

28. SEA-ME-WE 4 (SMW4) Capacity
The unit of SMW4 capacity is MIU-Km
MIU- Minimum Investment Unit, Minimum Investment
Unit of SMW4 is STM 1
Capacity through SMW4 can be opened through JAC
(Jointly Assigned Capacity) and WAC (Wholly Assigned
Capacity)
Wet segment cost can be half circuit basis or full circuit
basis. Half circuit cost is for circuits which are opened
through JAC and full circuit cost is for circuits which are
opened through WAC

29. Example of costing
Banani –Mohakhali Wet Segment Marseilles-Paris-Paris office,
Dhaka – Cox`s Bazar ˆ
Dhaka, Cost France
• Suppose one customer wants to take 1(one) E1 as IPLC from Banani,
Dhaka to Bangladesh to Paris, France
Segments of costing :
• Local Backhaul Cost
• Banani to Mohakhali– provided by outsourced company (A)
• Mohakhali to Cox’s Bazar CLS – provided by BTCL (B)
• Wet-segment cost (provided by BSCCL) (C)
• Cox’s Bazar CLS to Marseilles CLS on half circuit or JAC basis
or
• Cox’s Bazar CLS to Marseilles CLS on half circuit or WAC basis
• Distant Backhaul Cost (D)
Total Cost = A+B+C+D

30. Schematic Diagram of IPLC connection
SMW4

31. Segments effecting IPLC charge.
Linking Paris office with Dhaka, Bangladesh Office
Banani
Paris
Paris
Dhaka
France
d) a)
Mohakhali
b)
Marseilles
Cox`s Bazar
c)
Total= a + b + c +d SMW4 Cable
Marketing, BTCL

32. Leased Line Connectivity:
BTCL has a countrywide robust transmission network
consisting of 41000 Km of optical fiber and many
digital microwave stations. The inter-operator
connectivity and inter-organizational connectivity
with bandwidth in the range of E1, E3, STM-1, STM-4
etc. are leased out with competitive charges.

33. BSCCL
Submarine
Cable
Mir Novotel BTCL Bangla Trac Mango
IGW IGW IGW IGW IIG
M&H BTCL GETCO
ICX
New ICX
ICX ICX New ICX
BTCL
TAX
BTCL
Mobile Mobile BTCL Mobile Mobile
Exchanges
BTCL
Operator Operator Exchanges Operator Operator
Exchanges
BTCL
Exchanges

34. IGW (International Gateway) Service
BTCL has long been working as the international
voice carrier and operating international gateways.
The legitimate voice calls originated from and
terminated to the Access Network Service (ANS)
Providers’ network are exchanged through BTCL
IGW.

35. ICX (Inter-Operator Connection Exchange)
 Service: BTCL provides ICX services to route
domestic inter-operator calls.

36. IIG (International Internet Gateway)
Service: ISPs, BWA Operators and Mobile Operators
having ISP licenses are connected through optical
fiber with BTCL IIG nodes for providing them
Internet transit facility.

37. Country Domain:
 BTCL is the only provider of .bd country code top
level domain registration service. Charge is Tk 1500
for 2 years. http://
www.btcl.gov.bd/home/main/services/dotbd_whois_FAQ.

38. Co-location service
: Other operators can rent some racks at BTCL offices
if required to keep and operate their equipment. Co-
location service is available at Mogbazar telephone
exchange and Mohakhali Satellite earth-station
building.

39. Infrastructure Sharing Service:
 BTCL has countrywide active and passive
infrastructure facility down to Upazilla and Growth
Center level. This infrastructure can be leased out/
rented under the Infrastructure Sharing Guidelines
issued by BTRC.

40. Licenses as Operator
BTCL holds all licenses of entire telecom arena
excepting Mobile Service.
 1. PSTN license.
2. International Gateway (IGW).
3. Interconnection Exchange (ICX).
4. International Internet Gateway (IIG).
5. Internet Service Provider (ISP).

41. ABBREVIATION
BSCCL: Bangladesh Submarine Company Limited.
IN : Intelligent Network.

42. Thank you
• Md. Aminul Hassan, GM, P&D
• Md. Alimuzzaman, DE, SEC, P&D.
• Zahirul Alam, DE, MEP.