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Sheba Phone to launch wireless fixed phones in rural areas by Dec

STAR BUSINESS REPORT
Sheba Phone, a project of Integrated Services Limited (ISL), will invest Tk 100 crore to roll out its wireless fixed phone network in the southeast and southwest regions by December this year.
The aim of the project is to provide the country's rural masses with telecoms services, ISL Chairman Afzal Chowdhury told reporters at a briefing in Dhaka yesterday.
To implement the Phase-I of this project, ISL has entered into an agreement with US telecoms equipment manufacturer, Alvarion, Chowdhury added.
The local company has recently changed its project name Sheba Access to Sheba Phone to launch the services in the rural areas.
Under the accord, ISL will install
100-125 phones in each of 246 upazila of the southeast and southwest regions by December.
"We have a plan to install three lakh telephones within two years in phases," ISL chairman added.
Apart from voice service, Sheba Phone will provide different value added services including video conferencing and tele-medicine facilities.
"Although the service is PSTN origin, we will be able to provide some extra services," Chowdhury hoped.
Subscribers of Sheba Phone will be connected through three switch centres established at Dhaka, Chittagong and Khulna.
Sheba Phone is also trying to establish interconnectivity with all the local mobile operators in addition to Bangladesh Telegraph and
Telephone Board (BTTB), he said.
Chowdhury said the rural people are keen to talk with their expatriate near and dear ones and Sheba Phone will realise their dreams with the highly developed technology.
In view of this and also the economic condition of rural people, Sheba Phone has fixed a low tariff in comparison with BTTB's local and foreign tariffs.
"We hope that the rural people of Bangladesh will be highly benefited from this," Chowdhury said.
Patrick Duncan, Alvarion managing director (Asia Pacific), who flew to Dhaka on the occasion, expressed his satisfaction over the deal with ISL.
Barbara S Kerry, economic officer of the US Embassy in Dhaka, also spoke at the function.