Dhaka, May 16: Mobile phone operator CityCell is making about Tk 360 crore a year illegally, according to regulatory officials.
A 12-hour raid on the company headquarters in the capital Wednesday produced evidence for the BTRC officials to claim CityCell, majority-owned by former foreign minister M Morshed Khan, was making nearly Tk 1 crore a day from illegal VoIP connections.
RAB officer Major Shamsuzzoha showed to news agencies copies of bills against numbers 01190005010 and 01190005100 and said: “We have found 50 such dummy numbers. More one crore taka has been billed against these numbers every day. That brings the monthly figure to Tk 30 crore and annually Tk 360 crore.”
“This means the government has been deprived of Tk 330 crore a year by CityCell,” said Anamika Bhakta, a member of the six-strong BTRC committee to fight illegal VoIP business.
She said BTRC will sue CityCell under telecommunication laws.
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You can read a Bangla article of mine about CItyclell’s illegal VoIP Business. To get the report, please log on to:
http://www.shaptahik2000.info/issues/2007/year-10/issue_02/pdf/bp20070525.pdf
Omi Azad said,
June 1, 2007 @ 2:04 pm
Long ago I wrote some facts about these cheats. You can also have a look at that from: http://www.omiazad.net/?p=152