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Saturday, August 16, 2008

[chottala.com] Salute Khaleda Zia

For your stands: not to be voter in jail and not to apply for release to the puppet (of IMF, Word bank and India) CTG .
 
Mother of corrupt sons can not take such stand. One corrupt lady who took bribe with check has bought her release by leaving Bangladesh for her she frequently say , ready to be killed.
 
Your stand also  convince us that our susils media alo -star, jugantar, shamokal are propaganda mechines

আল্লাহ যাকে যখন ইচ্ছা ক্ষমতা দান করেন,মাইনাস টু ফরমুলায় তাই হাসেন
http://www.microscopiceye.blogspot.com/

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RE: [chottala.com] Professor Yunus is expected to lead by deeds, not words

Could anyone shed some real light on what is the "VoIP-related offence in 2007"  as mentioned in the posting below. I would like to be clear on this issue.  My idea (probably I am quite wrong about what I do believe at present) is that this issue is more of the "tug of war" between the "innovation" and "red taping". When existing bureaucratic administration of a country do not understand, do not value, and can not pace & catch the speed of development and innovations required, a tug of war creates between the administration and the industries engaged in the development. I believe that is exactly what happened in case of Bangladesh, as this VOIP scandal suggests. 
 
The consolidated word "VOIP" stands for "Voice Over Internet Protocol". Please see some details about VOIP in the following wikipedia link.
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VoIP
 
IEEE (International Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) was working in developing the VOIP protocol from long time ago, to be able to work on the LAN (Local Area Network), WAN (Wide Area Network), and World Wide Area Network (Internet) such that the Voice Signals (which is basically analogue in format) can be transmitted and received over the computerized digital networks (such as LAN, WAN, and Internet).
 
Finally, VOIP came out as an alternative to the PSTN (Public Switched Telephone Networks) systems. T&T of Bangladesh (Governmemnt owned), AT&T (Publicly owned) of USA are the examples of traditional PSTN systems.
 
In Bangladesh, T&T dictates all telephone related activities. Calls can not be originated or received out of the T&T PSTN network. However, modern technologies such as the VOIPs are not supported by the T&T. On the other hand, T&T will not improve their system introducing the VOIP transmission and reception technologies. On the ground of loosing the revenue, anyone who wants to install the infrastructure for VOIP technology is being labeled by the Government of Bangladesh as the illegal and criminal activities.
 
In all other countries, where VOIP is used, the user is charges a usage tax based on time or charged amount. Government makes a rule for it. Bangladesh is not doing it, stopping the innovative developments in the fields of communications, and unnecessarily harassing the innovators, for the Government's bad policy, as the stopper of innovation, and being extremely lazy in improving the effective rules and regulations, to collect the revenues and taxes for the funds of the Government.
 
In fact, this controversy should never be termed as "VOIP". Because the VOIP is the end user's product. That means, when a telephone user at the near end can hear the voice of the far end caller in his telephone set that is not connected to the PSTN system, rather to the Internet, is called the "VOIP". In Bangladesh, the real and actual VOIP system does not exist. Everyone either uses the T&T (quite problematic) phone or the Mobile Phone. Actually, the VOIP needs a broadband network, either through Cable-TV or through DSL to provide the ISP (Internet Service Provider). Then the VOIP service can be connected for that user by a VOIP service provider. Is this the situation that does practically work in Bangladesh right now? If not, why it is labeled as the "VOIP"?
 
In fact what the communications industries are doing in Bangladesh, are using internet as the transmission networks for  voice transmission either to T&T end users or the mobile phone users, mainly because of the scarcity of the network provider. Since there is no existing Government regulations how the taxes to be paid or or revenues to be collected for the Government, it became a serious deadlock between the Government of Bangladesh and the industries working for innovations. Now the military Government being a dictator, just trying to make them hero, engaging into this controversial matter, and not giving the opportunity to the innovators to develop the country.
 
By my opinion, T&T and the Government of Bangladesh as a whole are really responsible for this scandal. They must come very fast forward and set the rules how to pay the taxes such that the Government can collect revenues from these industries, where T&T is incapable of providing the services.
 
Innovation should not be stopped, rather to accelerate whatever way it can be and only then the nation will improve. Otherwise, the simple red tapping and laziness of the Government entities will just keep a nation deplorable, unworthy, backward, chaotic.



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From: wouldbemahathirofbd@yahoo.com
Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 18:29:32 -0700
Subject: [chottala.com] Professor Yunus is expected to lead by deeds, not words


What  our susil media alo- star says about their once their cohort in search of honest and  competent  candidate?
 

For years now, a number of individuals and organisations, including some leading private-sector mobile phone operators, have been involved in the illegal use of voice over internet protocol for international call transmission, depriving the public exchequer crores of takas in unpaid revenues. Hence, we have always advocated for stringent governmental measure against such malpractices and welcomed it when the Bangladesh Telecom Regulatory Commission waged a war, so to speak, against both big- and small-time VoIP operators. We were hardly surprised when such leading telecom companies as the GrameenPhone, which happens to be the largest mobile phone operator in the country, and the Telecom Malaysia International (Bangladesh), which owns Aktel, were fined Tk 168.40 crore and Tk 145 crore respectively for VoIP-related offence in 2007.
   However, the involvement of the GrameenPhone in an illegal operation saddened us; after all, the company is linked to Professor Muhammad Yunus, who has brightened the country's image by winning the Nobel Peace Prize along with the Grameen Bank. Now that the telecom regulatory commission has again fined the GrameenPhone – Tk 250 crore this time around – for the same offence, we feel ashamed and outraged; more so because Professor Yunus has hardly ever tired of preaching the need for good governance, accountability and transparency at all spheres of the nation's life. When a company is associated with a person of Professor Yunus's stature, it may do one of two things – abuse his fame to maximise profit or protect his name by adhering to incontrovertible corporate practices. Regrettably, the GrameenPhone has shunned the latter, which is desirable, and settled for the former, which is deplorable.
   Professor Yunus should know better that all his talks about good governance, accountability and transparency would ring hollow, if these are not practised in the institution that he is organically linked to. He should also realise that he himself is an institution and is, therefore, expected to lead by deeds not words. Hence, unless and until he manages to bring his own house in order, his preaching for good governance, accountability and transparency in national life would count for little

আল্লাহ যাকে যখন ইচ্ছা ক্ষমতা দান করেন,মাইনাস টু ফরমুলায় তাই হাসেন
http://www.microscopiceye.blogspot.com/




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[chottala.com] Anti-corruption drive or Anti-business, Anti-Bangladesh drive?

Anti-corruption drive or Anti-business, Anti-Bangladesh drive?
Abid Bahar
Lately,I was listening to a friend just returned from Bangladesh who was talking about his uncle who was once a TV program director lived in rented apartments all his life but in his retirement began house building business and now he owns 5 beautiful buildings and keeps 3 cars. The uncle explained to his nephew, that he borrowed money from his friends and built his first building and then sold the condo apartments and made money, paid the debt and reinvested in new projects. I said this is capitalism. In Bangladesh, Bangladeshis are learning the capitalist tricks. It is true, in capitalist system, if you have the right contact and the right investment, you become rich as if like the popular saying, over night a finger turns into a banana tree. 
But again business or capitalism are not free of corruption. That is why the department of anti-corruption is there to catch violators. But in a country like Bangladesh when the military Generals find ways to take over power, they use the jingle of anti-corruption. This is not fighting corruption; it is a different story. It is politically motivated. In Bangladesh, Moin U who himself was known as his corrupt brother's keeper, ask to torture an alledged criminal businessman then sends to the court then sent him back to the cantonment and torture him again to find out how he made his money because when he he began business he had no money.   In Bangladesh to some fools, some old style Stalinist free-thinkers, the brother's keeper army General it is to purifying the nation. But they all should be taught the lesson of how capitalism works.
 The anti-capitalist and anti-business move by the military to capture power is simply chocking the nation and the foreign backers have been telling all along that Bangladesh is the world's #1 corrupt country even surpassing Chad, Pakistan and Afghanistan etc. not necessarily because they are corrupt but because Bangladeshis are becoming to smart to know how capitalism works and the army-backed anti-corruption drive is simply to deny the growth and development of Capitalism in Bangladesh. In this scenerios, of arrested development, chocking the nation, anti-Bangladesh drive, are the Bangladeshis going to miss the boat?


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[chottala.com] Mahathir urges women to blog on social, political issues

http://www.bdnews24.com/details.php?cid=2&id=59884

 
Mahathir urges women to blog on social, political issues
 
Sat, Aug 16th, 2008 6:39 pm BdST
 
Dhaka, Aug 16 (bdnews24.com) - Malaysian blogger and rights activist Marina Mahathir has urged women to express themselves on blogs on political and social issues following in the footsteps of Malaysian women.

Speaking at a conference on "Gender equity in media" at Dhaka University on Saturday, she said hundreds of Malaysian women are posting blogs on different political and social issues.

"The old media is facing challenge from new media like internet. Anybody can spread his opinions throughout the world using internet. Women are no exception in this regard," she said.

"If the traditional media fail to face the challenge of the new media and give space to women they will lag behind."

The daughter of former Malaysian prime minister Mahathir Mohamad said, "Blogging is a new trend and women are involved with it. There is a website named blogher solely for women and it has 13000 members all over the world."

Stressing on the importance of media she said, "Media is one of the most powerful tools that we have to shape the world we live in.

"Through the media and the information it provides, we are able to influence what people know (and what they don't know) and their attitudes about almost everything and everyone."

Mahathir said, "From September 11, or even earlier from the time of the Iranian revolution, we are seen as a violent people, stern and dour and who impose oppressive rules on society, especially on women.

"This stereotype disregards the diversity of the Muslim world and the many good aspects of our societies."

"Coverage of the more sensational violent and salacious stories about the West causes our people to view the West as an immoral and dangerous place and ignores admirable traits such as volunteerism and community spirit.

"We are often as guilty of imbalance as the West is."

Referring to a UNESCO research in 1995, she said, "In all parts of the world, women are not a significant part of the media workforce. In Asia, they make up 21 percent of the workforce, in Latin America 25 percent, in southern Africa 27 percent and in Western Europe and the United States 35 percent.

The conference adopted Dhaka Declaration 2008 that called for policies to give women scope in participation in policymaking by increasing their presence in media.

Women's leader and litterateur Selina Hossain read out the Dhaka Declaration.

Dhaka University vice chancellor Prof SMA Faiz was the chief guest at the conference.

Bangladesh Centre for Development Journalism and Communication (BCDJ) organised the conference with financial assistance from the European Union.

Professor Abul Monsur Ahmed of Dhaka University's Department of Mass Communication and Journalism read out a paper.

BCDJC president Naimul Islam Khan and Bangladeshi women journalists were present.

BRAC VISIT

Earlier, Mahathir praised Brac's grassroots reach as she visited a slum facility in the capital run by the world's largest NGO, Brac said in a statement.

"Brac's reach at the grassroots level is unprecedented," she was quoted as saying.

She spent time with children at a primary school and spoke to women at a health care centre.

Prior to her trip to the slum in the city's Gulshan area, she met with Brac senior officials at the NGO's headquarters.

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