Analysts take part in a roundtable — Bridging the internet usage gap: urban and rural areas — organised by the ICT ministry and The Daily Star at the newspaper’s office in the capital yesterday.
The country needs to make internet more affordable to achieve the penetration levels it so desires, analysts said yesterday.
“Internet penetration is eight times lower in rural areas than in urban ones. So there is need of enforcement and incentive,” said Nazrul Islam Khan, information and communication technology (ICT) secretary.
Although the government plans to reduce the bandwidth price from Tk 8,000 to Tk 5,000 for per megabits per second, Khan suggested going step ahead and slashing it to Tk 3,000. More…
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