{"id":95000,"date":"2025-02-27T17:33:09","date_gmt":"2025-02-27T17:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gsma.com\/solutions-and-impact\/connectivity-for-good\/public-policy\/?post_type=gsma_theme_resources&p=95000"},"modified":"2025-04-04T10:51:06","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T09:51:06","slug":"enabling-mobile-network-investment-in-bangladesh","status":"publish","type":"gsma_theme_resources","link":"https:\/\/www.gsma.com\/solutions-and-impact\/connectivity-for-good\/public-policy\/gsma_resources\/enabling-mobile-network-investment-in-bangladesh\/","title":{"rendered":"Enabling Mobile Network Investment in Bangladesh"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Bangladesh stands at a critical juncture in its journey towards becoming a trillion-dollar economy, aspiring to achieve the status of a developed nation. As a vital enabler of this transformation, the telecom sector will play a central role in driving economic growth, fostering innovation, and ensuring digital inclusion. Achieving these aspirations will require significant investments in telecom infrastructure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This report addresses the key challenges to attracting greater mobile network investment and suggests four areas for policy action:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Attractive business environment:<\/strong>
    Streamlined licensing processes, longer license periods, opportunities for mobile operators to deploy their fibre and gateway infrastructure, active infrastructure sharing, and transparent stakeholder collaboration.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Reform fiscal framework:<\/strong>
    Reform sector-specific taxes on consumers, align corporate taxes with other industries, and introduce transparent and predictable tax policies.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Progressive regulatory framework:<\/strong>
    Market-driven regulations, improved transparency and regular policy updates to adapt to evolving needs.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. Government enablers for investment:<\/strong>
    Regulatory stability, fiscal support, and prioritised digitalisation initiatives.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Learn more about the Energising Network Investment framework here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Bangladesh stands at a critical juncture in its journey towards becoming a trillion-dollar economy, aspiring to achieve the status of a developed nation. As a vital enabler of this transformation, the telecom sector will play a central role in driving economic growth, fostering innovation, and ensuring digital inclusion. Achieving these aspirations will require significant investments […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":95,"featured_media":95001,"template":"","meta":{"image":"https:\/\/www.gsma.com\/solutions-and-impact\/connectivity-for-good\/public-policy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Bangladesh-cover.png","json":{"gsma_resources_type":"Document","gsma_resources_thumb":"[95002]","gsma_resources_file":"[95003]","gsma_resources_multi":null,"gsma_resources_wgr":null,"gsma_resources_video":"","gsma_resources_image":"null","gsma_resources_url":"","gsma_resources_date":"","gsma_resources_button":""}},"tags":[],"resource_categories":[12098],"algolia_discover_type":[12151],"class_list":["post-95000","gsma_theme_resources","type-gsma_theme_resources","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","resource_categories-digital-infrastructure-policy","algolia_discover_type-documents-and-reports"],"yoast_head":"\nEnabling Mobile Network Investment in Bangladesh - Public Policy<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"This report addresses the key challenges to attracting greater mobile network investment in Bangladesh and suggests four areas for policy action.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gsma.com\/solutions-and-impact\/connectivity-for-good\/public-policy\/gsma_resources\/enabling-mobile-network-investment-in-bangladesh\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Enabling Mobile Network Investment in Bangladesh\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"This report addresses the key challenges to attracting greater mobile network investment in Bangladesh and suggests four areas for policy action.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.gsma.com\/solutions-and-impact\/connectivity-for-good\/public-policy\/gsma_resources\/enabling-mobile-network-investment-in-bangladesh\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Public Policy\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-04-04T09:51:06+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.gsma.com\/solutions-and-impact\/connectivity-for-good\/public-policy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Bangladesh.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"661\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"444\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Enabling Mobile Network Investment in Bangladesh - 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