Dhaka: Country’s leading online newsportal Banglanews24.com and the leading Telecom operator Grameenphone have initiated a new journey for providing News Service. Grameenphone subscribers now can get all the breaking news of the day in Taka one only.
To avail this exciting service, Grameenphone subscribe needs to dialing *321*3*1# & avail unlimited Breaking News for BDT 1 [excluding VAT & SD] for the entire day only!
In this connection banglanews and Grameenphone have already signed a contract and hence Banglanews has become the Branded News Partner of the biggest telephone operator of the country with more than 5.5 crore base of subscribers.
Apart from breaking news presently the service includes Morning Update, Mid-day News, Evening Update and Business News.
Any GP user just needs to dial *321*3# and select 1 for breaking, 2 for morning update, 3 for mid-day news, 4 for evening update and 5 for business news.
Subscribing any of the above will give subscribers the most attractive offer in the world of Telco. They will get unlimited number of SMSs in a day by spending Taka 1 only.
The contract was inked on November 22 (Sunday) at GP house in Bashundhara R/A of Baridhara in the city. Banglanews Editor in Chief Alamgir Hossain and GP’s Chief Procurement Officer Asif Mohammed Touhid signed the contract on respective part.
Inking on the contract Alamgir Hossain expressed his delight and said, Banglanews is the fastest growing online newsportal in the country and tries to provide news fastest to its readers. The new partnership with GP will expedite the endeavor and the best SMS service will be ensured, he said.
Content should not be controlled, rather it should be circulated more and more, Alamgir Hossain opined.
Information is the power, the more information people will know, the more they will be powerful and with the power of the people the country will step forward, he added.
Terming SMS service as the quickest and easiest way to reach out millions of people in seconds, Mr Hossain said, that is the reason for what the Banglanew24-Grameenphone breaking news service will be popular.
Praising Banglanews as a quickest Breaking News provider in the country, Mr Asif Touhid said, it is the biggest challenge to collect news fastest and disseminate those to the readers or subscribers.
Banglanews has successfully taken the challenge and we believe the Grameenphone breaking news will help subscribers get all breaking news on right time as happen, he added.
“People want to know what happens around them, they have interest on the events and happenings of both the country and abroad. We believe Banglanews will satisfy the thirst of news of the crores of subscribers of Grameenphone under the service.”
The most wonderful thing of this service is, it is the cheapest. You can get unlimited news of the day in one Taka only. People happily spend this money, but they want to be satisfied with the new, said the chief procurement office of GP.
Both Alamgir Hossain and Asif Touhid put emphasis on providing breaking news in Bangla language so that people who cannot read English can also subscribe the service.
GP and Banglanews will jointly introduce the service soon, they agreed.
Head of News Mahmood Menon, Head of Marketing Sirajul Islam among other were present on Banglanews side while GP general manager, sourcing Jahed Bin Ahsan, Head of VAS Sharif Shibly Sadique, VAS specialist Md. Mahmudul Haque, sourcing lead specialist Jahangir Alam among other were present during the signing ceremony at GPExpo of GP house.
According to Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) the total number of telephone users in the country is 13 crore 14 lac 36 thousand. Among them 5 crore 55 lac and 11 thousand are the users of Grameenphone.
All these huge number of users are potential subscribers of the Breaking News and other news services, we firmly believe.
So don’t hesitate any more, just Dial *321*3# and subscribe the news service you like. Choose one and get unlimited news of the day for Taka one only.
BDST 1630 HRS, Nov 25, 2015
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