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tools; we augment human Bangladesh When you put in growth of the Bangladeshi
intelligence and effort with Telecommunication economy has been about 6.5% on
these advanced technologies. Regulatory Commission mobile services average. In 2018, the growth was
(BTRC) is targeting to into a 7.3%, and hopefully, we will
Your consumer base is commence 5G mobile community, you surpass that rate this year
incredibly large and network by 2023? Do (2019). It is the result of policy,
diverse, does that make you believe we are on end up with vision and execution of the
predicting even more track to achieve that people having government and people of
challenging? target? Bangladesh. This incredible
Well, the good news is the access to trade, economic growth has raised You have been in Bangladesh
We have roughly 76 million good at dealing with these millions of people every year
customers right now, and that things. So eventually, we get equipment that we're installing commerce and from poverty towards the middle for three years now.Are you
scale allows us to do very good at dealing with the right now is essentially the education and class, playing a significant role having fun?
significant analysis. For challenges that exist in specific last generation of 4g in reducing inequalities. Three So, does it look like I'm having fun?
example, GP serves up 400 markets. equipment. And it's all security. key technologies facilitate in (laugh) . I'm very passionate about
million minutes of voice designed to be somewhat reducing inequalities are medical being here. It has been a humbling
services per day. In every one Do you have to make any compatible with 5g. So when services, electrification, and privilege to lead a company like this
of those calls, there are adjustments to your style 5g happens, we will be able to mobile telecommunications. that does so much good.
multiple interactions. These of leadership depending launch in pockets 5g where it's When you put in mobile services Grameenphone pays more corporate
interactions allow us to create on the country you are needed. But 5g will not bring a into a community, you end up tax than about five next companies
models of how our customers working? revolution of new equipment. with people having access to combined. We are fully aware that
and the economy behaves, There might be some new trade, commerce and education 70% of daily traffic goes through our
much more complicated. opportunities where which eventually enables us to Yes! I usually tend to be very antennas, spectrum and How do you deal with
In the past, in telecom, the otherwise we would not Therefore, we moved to a start crafting services and deeply hands-on, involved in baseboards in our equipment, cyber security concerns? and security. You also ensure networks. In places like Sylhet and
Rajshahi, if our network goes down
only real evolution was in have searched before. The products that meet the needs every aspect of the business. but it will not be a massive There are a few things that keep access to essential services like
technology, and you could process stipulates making completely different operation of clients. And that the ability From working on promotions revolution. me awake, and I spend a lot of medical care, information and for 10 mins (it doesn't), the economy
from where we were before.
stops because we have 80-85 market
predict the path of the organization leaner. It of computing power today to to setting up towers in various There are three primary time worrying about, connectivity with your friends.
progression. Now, the also involves removing So, the answer to dealing with crunch this amount of is such districts, I prefer to be engaged end of next year, we will have all services for 5g. One is cybersecurity is one of them. The And it is in itself a form it is a share. So this is a privilege.
an uncertain future is to give
transformation has layers of management, that the scale of it gives us an in every operation. However, our sites under 4G coverage ultra-high-speed mobile devices that we have in our form of socio-economic How do you like to spend
become multidimensional; automating and replacing yourself the tools to be much advantage rather than a this business has become so which amounts to approximately services; the second thing is hands today are the development. your free time?
more flexible. And we call that
every other aspect of the outdated systems. Instead deficit. massive and complex that it 95% of the population. this massive machine type supercomputers of a decade ago. So the very nature of what we do
sector is evolving, of using massive system “Agile”; we have to react doesn't allow me to do that We have 30-40 million people in communication. So, MMPC, We now operate on IP networks, in the industry, not just myself Free time!what's that? (laugh), we
quickly. But we also have to
including the regulatory developments and releases You have previously anymore. Likewise, our our country who still use 2G this requires very, very small just like computers do. So the but my colleagues in the telecom have a hectic schedule but my free
environment and once every half year, or predict and move fast while worked as CEO of Telenor corporate strategy of "Red way My leadership team and I do not handsets, for them migrating is bandwidth. Many devices risks are not only from handsets sector, contributes to reducing time is mostly spent with my family.
being in touch with the market
international competition. every year, we now have a Pakistan and Bulgaria, of work" and "Agile" makes the need to tell them how to do more difficult as 4G smartphones around the world, for example, but for from other entities as inequalities from the I have two daughters in Canada who
Concurrently, new players customer-facing tool, by using tools like Big Data are there any specific leader play a different role. So something. We only explicate our are expensive. metering, electrical grid well. Criminals might want to get technological aspect. are in university, so much of my
and AI.
are entering the market MyGP, which we do challenges that you had the leader plays two particular expectations in the end. 4G handsets are costly because monitoring, water grid in and play games with the We are also moving to get more time is spent sending them money
like OTTs (Over The TOP), releases every two weeks. to overcome in roles now; it includes setting There are some exercises where the government has put taxes on monitoring use this networks for industrial women into management, it (laugh). I have remarried, my wife is
How has GrameenPhone
cross-platform messaging incorporated the use of Bangladesh? clear objectives and managing I'm on the team but not leading. its import. In my opinion, its technology, this can be done espionage or for hacking makes the company more a Kenyan national, she's from
and VoIP platforms like Big data and AI in its the results closely. My office doesn't have a big wall (taxes) pretty reasonable and it partly on 4g as well. information about customers. We productive. The decisions are Nairobi. We have a four-year-old
WhatsApp and Viber. Most operations? I've previously worked in And in the middle, you let around it and has a desk like appears to be a successful policy And then there's very fast, very have a fundamental more robust, and you represent daughter, and they share their time
importantly, consumer markets similar to Bangladesh, people within broad guidelines everybody else, and anyone can for the government actually to highly reliable low latency, 5g responsibility to ensure the the client base that you serve between Nairobi and here (Dhaka).
behaviour and preferences We use Big Data, Machine including Nigeria, Kenya and find their way. My job as a walk up to me. I am also part of encourage manufacturers to build services for gaming or safety of our networks for because 40- 50% of our client When they are in town, that's 100%
are constantly evolving. learning, and some AI to Tanzania. Like any other leader is to set those very clear some business teams only to manufacturing facilities here in autonomous vehicles or national security reasons. So it's base are women. We're also of my time.When they are away, I
provide guidance rather than
developing female managers for
The Telecom industry Consequently, the future is design promotions. They help market, Bangladesh has some objectives and to manage the being the final decision-maker. Bangladesh. And the government telerobotics. So, a doctor or a something we spent a lot of time every one of the leadership spend most of my free time reading.
of Bangladesh has put in the
specific challenges. For us
results at the end, and then
Most of the books that I pick up now
us to understand the
no longer predictable;
is a dynamic and consumers by Upazilas, or (Telenor Group), Bangladesh facilitate the way they do right pair of barriers at the surgeon doing surgery on. teams in the company. have to do with international
rapidly evolving therefore, we have to even smaller groups and has been one of the most things, but let people find their Are you satisfied with the border. If you're bringing in parts, remotely over a wireless Thirdly, by the end of this year, economics or internet or
allow ourselves to
sector, what design promotions accordingly. successful ventures, and we've way. rate of 4G adaptation the tariffs are more, if you're network, those things are Grameenphone has we will have trained about international politics. I usually use
challenges does this perceive/predict and react, Grameenphone can modify the been here for more than two George Patton, the American among Bangladeshi bringing in components, they are further down in the future for committed to the UN SDG 300,000 adults, and a million the reading List of Fareed Zakaria,
which is not easy for big
pose? What are the offers that consumers get, decades. It is the cornerstone general in the Second World consumers? lower. So the more you get into us in Bangladesh, although #10 – (Reduced children face to face on how to host of GPS on CNN. I don't miss
strategies that help companies. To make that based on their usage almost in of our activities in Asia. War, said to let people do their Yes! The adaptation rate is field manufacturing, the less some of it might come, some Inequalities) in use the internet safely. We are this program, and I like watching
happen, we have had to
you to ensure the real-time. For Bangladesh, some job the way they want to, they expensive it is to build a headset specific applications might Bangladesh, what are the teaching them the importance of what he does. And so I usually pick
ship is guided in the change the culture of not We are also using more and obstacles are very distinctive, might surprise you with the admirable. There are challenges, here. come early like robotics, aspects of inequality does having strong passwords, books out of his reading list. For
and most of them have to do with
just Grameenphone
right direction? And while it may have caused a manufacturing controls or so GP want to address? What dangers of sharing real-time
fundamentally, but the more of these tools for for example, I've been here for results. And this is what handset availability. on. Although, the business are the activities you have fiction, I'm a huge Star Trek and Star
That's a wonderful entire Telenor Group over management of networks 36 months, and we have happens in GP, we have a Smartphones are expensive in bit of a challenge for people to cases are further out at this undertaken to serve this location and securing private Wars fan. I've read 400 Star Trek
question and a great topic the last four years to because they are becoming already had three cyclones. fantastic team of people, the Bangladesh, but there's a adopt, in the long term, this is an moment. Eventually, every objective? information from strangers — novels in my life. So I know
to start the conversation become much more very complex. Modern These are obstacles that you best in Bangladesh work for reasonable good reason for that. excellent decision. As the handset application will happen in Simultaneously, guiding them on everything about Star Trek you want
because our industry and supple. It allowed us to networking technologies don't have in other parts of the us, and they do amazing Right now, we cover 71% of the prices come down, people will Bangladesh as well, and it will I want to open this by saying one how to use the internet to know about.
the world is becoming adapt quickly and look for require incredibly sophisticated world. But we have become things. population with 4G. And by the eventually migrate 4G handsets. happen pretty quick. thing, over the last decade, the responsibly.
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