The Indian government wrote to the foreign ministry two weeks ago to import 100 gigabits bandwidth for its northeastern provinces, said Md Monwar Hossain, managing director of Bangladesh Submarine Cable Company Ltd.
A delegation from Myanmar is also set to visit Dhaka this week to discuss purchase of 50 GB bandwidth from Bangladesh, he said.
Officials of both countries have visited Dhaka with the same agenda several times.
Bangladesh will have to lay at least 50 kilometres of optical fibre cable from Brahmanbaria to Akhaura border if it decides to sell bandwidth to India.
India has multiple submarine cables, but it becomes very expensive for the country to transmit bandwidth to its north-eastern provinces through terrestrial lines from landing stations. The spending will come down for India if it purchases bandwidth from Bangladesh.
On the other hand, Myanmar has connectivity with SEA-ME-WE-3 cable but it has no backup and the cable will become inactive in the next couple of years. Now the country needs more bandwidth to expand its telecom sector.
Bangladesh has a connectivity of a submarine cable of 200 GB bandwidth with the SEA-ME-WE-4 with six international terrestrial cables as backup and additional use.
The country hopes to get additional 800 GB capacity bandwidth by March of 2015 when the SEA-ME-WE-5 will be installed.
source: The Daily Star
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