Grameen Cybernet lunch low cost IP phone in december in Bangladesh

Internet service provider Grameen Cybernet Limited will introduce 'GCL IP Telephony' service all over the country in December with an aim to provide clients with low-cost telephone facility. People will be able to talk at a lower cost through using GCL Internet Protocol Telephone once the modern technology is installed across the country. The call rates from IP Phone to IP phone will be free of costs, but it will cost a caller 10 paisa per minute from IP phone to mobile phone and PSTN operators and Tk 2 to Tk 10 for ISD calls. The service will also provide various internet services including voicemail, caller ID, call forwarding, call waiting and conference calls. 'We are expected to launch IP telephone service in Bangladesh market from December this year. The GCL has developed the consumer friendly IP phone by its own experts using open source technology,' Mohammad Masum Billah Riton, GCL admin and HR deputy manager, told reporters at a news conference at Dhaka Reporters' Unity on Sunday. He said the modern service (IP telephony), based on open sources technologies, had been designed and implemented by GCL without any foreign technical assistance. The GCL, which was awarded the BTRC licence on August 18, has been providing internet service and other services like software development, corporate network and web solution since 1996.