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Giant pvt satellite earth station gets going May

Multimedia communications anticipate huge boost

Mustak Hossain
The country's largest private sector satellite earth station would goes into operation from May next, significantly boosting the existing facilities for local and overseas data and multimedia communications.
DNS SatComm Satellite Earth Station, which also is the country's single largest ICT infrastructure project, will be built through a syndicated loan and equity financing from the central bank at Savar
Export Processing Zone, DNS SatComm Chief Operating Officer Atiqul Ahsan told The Daily Star yesterday.
The total project cost has been estimated at Tk 16.24 crore. Of that Infrastructure Development Company Limited (IDCL) would provide Tk 4.88 crore, and Janta Bank and Prime Bank Limited Tk 2.43 crore each as loan. Of the rest, Equity and Entrepreneurship Fund of Bangladesh Bank would provide Tk 3.18 crore as equity and the
rcmainingTk 3.32 would be invested by DNS SatComm.
A contract signing ceremony will be held in this regard on December 14, with Finance Minister M Saifur Rahman and Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) Chairman Syed Marghub Murshcd present as the chief and the special guests. DNS SatComm earlier obtained the licence to construct the station from foe BTRC.
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Atiqul Ahsan said, "Our prospective clients include corporate houses, banks and satellite television channels."
After the earth station is installed, DNS SarComm would be able to provide lower bandwidth, enabling banks to establish more automated teller machines (ATMs) at remote places with a lower cost involvement, he said.
"So, we expect to have a boom in use of ATMs and credit cards once the station is on, " he added.
Currently banks use VSAT (very small aperture terminal) for online banking and running remote ATMs. The lowest bandwidth locally available is 64 kbps (kilobytes per second), which is costly.
"We will offer small bandwidth at a lower price to cater to the clients," Adq said, adding local banks would be able to go online with a lower budget once we are ready.
Overseas correspondents of different new agencies would also be able to send their multimedia stories abroad via our earth station,
he explained.
Atiq said DNS SatComm would procure its broadband equipment from iDirect Inc, a US company, and Cambridge Boardband of the UK.
According to him, "The station would be established with the ability to transmit to every comer of the globe."
Atiq said DNS SatComm would also provide services through submarine fibre optic cables once the country is connected with the information super highway through a transoceanic submarine fibre optic cable network.
State-owned Bangladesh Telegraph and Telephone Board (BTTB) has already become a member of a 14-country consortium named "SEA-ME-WE-4" to connect the country with the global hi-tech link by September next year.
Bangladesh Internet Exchange Ltd, BDTEL Communication and DNS Software are three other concerns of the DNS Group.
Currently, the BTTB and Bangladesh Television have satellite earth stations.