News Title : Citycell seeks 3 months more to pay due bills

News Date : 2015-10-05

-Ishtiaq Husain
Bangladesh’s oldest mobile phone operator Citycell has sought three more months to pays all dues to the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC). In mid-September, the telecom regulator had issued an ultimatum on Citycell over its outstanding payment worth over TK258 crore within 15 days. It also warned the operator that if they fail to pay the dues within the stipulated time will have to face legal action. In response, Citycell sought more time until December to pay the dues and hoped that they would get new investor by December, allowing them a scope to pay the all dues. Citycell continues to lose subscribers as the company is apparently doing nothing to boost services. Recently, Grameenphone served a legal notice to Citycell again to pay the outstanding bill of Tk9.72 crore. In 2014, Grameenphone also served a same notice to pay outstanding amount of Tk10.61 crore. After that notice Citycell paid some amount of dues. The cellphone company didn’t pay any interconnection charge since 2014, according to the notice. Other operators like Banglalink and Robi are also seeking to realise their outstanding interconnection charges from Citycell.

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