But a more congenial and rational government policy may help improve the scenario. There is no reason for the BTTB to impose high costs on private VSAT use. The current charge of US $8,625 per provider per month should be reduced to a comfortable level. This will encourage more providers and will ensure healthy competition among them, ultimately reducing the online charge and improving service quality. Unless more competitors, more investments, and more innovations are encouraged in the field, Internet usage and its benefit will not increase substantially. The government may introduce lucrative consumer loans and give more incentives for people to have their own connections.
The Internet users should further organise themselves for improvement of the services extended by providers. They should be enabled to take work orders from developed countries not only for data entry services, but also for software development and thus helped to increase foreign exchange earnings. Taking advantage of the Internet governments all over the globe are promoting e-governance. Development partners are helping the building of national networks in Africa. Similar support should be mobilised in our country. In addition to technical support that are available from donors, services of expatriate Bangladeshis specialising in Internet usage may also be harnessed.
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Quelle/Source: The New Nation, 19.04.2010
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