Grameenphone and Banglalink are the two main competitors in Bangladesh's mobile phone service sector when it comes to quality and capabilities, according to a report by Opensignal. Opensignal, a company that monitors and analyses the overall performance of mobile services, has published the "Network Experience Report" on the mobile sector in Bangladesh considering the data from April 1 to June 29 this year. The company categorised the different aspects of mobile services of Banglalink, Grameenphone, Robi and Teletalk into 10 metrics under three categories – overall experience, coverage, and consistency.

Chinese telecom giant Huawei has brought the first suite of global scenario-based cloud solutions for telecom carriers. Director of Huawei Carrier IT Marketing and Solution Sales Chen Xuejun recently announced this new solution in China at the summit Win-Win Innovation Week. These solutions focus on monetising networks, innovating services, and optimising operations to help carriers embrace cloud transformation and growth acceleration. With advances in 5G, cloud computing, big data, and edge computing, cloud transformation has become the future of telecom carriers. Read: Huawei: 'Fastest-growing' cloud provider in Asia-Pacific According to Gartner, carriers around the world will increase their investment in cloud transformation at a compound annual growth rate of 27 percent in the next five years. Chen Xuejun said: "The key to carrier cloud transformation lies in smarter use of the cloud for networks, services, and operations. Huawei Cloud will work with global carriers to transform and open up new growth space." The Win-Win Innovation Week was held from July 18 to July 21 in Shenzhen. Read Huawei launches new green development solutions

Chinese telecom giant Huawei has announced that it will invest $220 million in the cloud ecosystem this year. The Huawei Developer Program 2.0 will include the newly announced Huawei Cloud Partner Innovation Program, Kunpeng OpenMind Project, and Ascend OpenMind Project. Also read: Huawei plans to roll out 6G by 2030 The announcement came at the 2021 Huawei Developer Conference (HDC.Cloud 2021) in China's  Shenzhen on Sunday. "By 2025, 100% of enterprises around the globe will be using cloud technology," Richard Yu Chengdong, executive director of Huawei and CEO of the cloud BU and consumer business group, said at the event. Read Huawei unveils smart car components "Cloud is the future of the ICT industry and the foundation for enterprises' digital transformation. Developers are the soul of the industry," he added. At the HDC.Cloud 2021, Huawei launched six innovative products and services, including Huawei Cloud CCE Turbo cloud container cluster, CloudIDE intelligent programming assistant, Trusted Intelligent Computing Service, and infrastructure software for diversified computing, read a press release. Read Huawei brings financial aid, free service for Asia-Pacific SMEs

Grameenphone's board of directors Monday approved a 275% cash dividend for 2020 in its annual general meeting (AGM).  The 24th AGM was held through a digital platform following the instructions of the Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission and the risk of the virus spreading among the participants of the meeting, the company said in a statement. Grameenphone's board of directors announced a cash dividend of 145% of the paid-up capital or Tk14.5 per share of Tk10 each.  Read GP Explorers 2.0 launched to upskill 357 youths With this cash dividend pay-out, the total cash dividend stands at 275% of the paid-up capital, including the previous 130% interim cash dividend pay-out, amounting to 99.86% of profit after tax for the year 2020. At the meeting, Grameenphone CEO Yasir Azman said: "In 2020, we were agile, innovative and delivered a solid performance by running our operations following contingent ways of work in the face of Covid-19 pandemic and natural calamities while ensuring the safety of our employees and our supply chain partners."  Grameenphone wants to focus on its operational efficiencies and strategies to ensure better coverage and customer-driven initiatives. Also read: Grameenphone announces 15,500 4G towers in country The company has acquired an additional 10.4 MHz spectrum in the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) auction, amounting to a total of 47.4 MHz spectrum.  On top of additional spectrum acquisition, Grameenphone has also celebrated 50 years of Bangladesh on March 26, 2021, by announcing all its 15,500 towers 4G enabled across Bangladesh.  Jorgen C Arentz Rostrup, chair of Grameenphone Board, said: "Our focus for the year ahead will be to ensure Grameenphone's long-term sustainability. We continue to adapt to the challenges of the current Covid-19 reality. The company focuses on ensuring a better network experience, ensuring growth, innovation, modernisation, and stand by society with responsible business conduct."  Read Grameenphone announces 15,500 4G towers in country

Chinese police cracked 200,000 telecom and Internet fraud cases and captured 163,000 suspects in 2019, Tuesday's China Police Daily reported.