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Bangladesh's broadband fee highest in Asia

Jetro reveals in survey

Star Business Report
The monthly broadband internet fee in Bangladesh is the highest among the Asian countries that reduces its business competitiveness here, according to a survey conducted by Japan External Trade Organisation (Jetro).
Similarly the country is in the seventh highest position in initial broadband connection fee, says the survey on 30 major cities of 15 Asian countries including Bangladesh.
The report says though severe competitions led to downward adjustments of mobile call charges and monthly basic charges in Bangladesh, costs of telephone installation, international call charges from Bangladesh and mobile subscription fees still remain less competitive here.
The 19th survey of the Overseas Research Department of Jetro styled "Survey of Investment-Related Cost Comparison in Major Cities and Regions in Asia", conducted during January 2009, found that Bangladesh is competitive in seven cost components among 34 such components.
The report was released yesterday.
Wages, land price and office rent, telecommunications expenses, charges for utilities, transportation and taxation were the broad components considered in the survey of a total of 34 components.
Among the Asian countries, cost for general use of gas in Bangladesh was found exclusively lowest compared to other countries.
The other components where Bangladesh was found competitive include water rate.
Regarding the cost related to transportation, the survey was made for the routes from the surveyed cities to the ports of Yokohama of Japan and Los Angeles of USA.
The survey mentioned
cost of container transportation as a big element affecting export competitiveness and found cost for transporting container to Yokohama Port of Japan to be the highest if it takes place from Chittagong Port.
Bangladesh was also found as the third highest expensive country for container transportation from Chittagong Port to Los Angeles.
Electricity bill in Bangladesh is the third most expensive among the cities, the survey said.
Though Bangladesh is considered very competitive in terms of labour wages, it was found that the country is the second lowest in terms of labour wages after Myanmar.
Seoul, Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Hong Kong, Jakarta, Taipei, Singapore, Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur, Manila, Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Yangon, New Delhi, Karachi, Mumbai and Dhaka were among the cities surveyed.