BTCL, Bangladesh Telecommunications Company Ltd., is providing telephone service to about 1 million telephone subscribers down to upazila (thana) and growth centre level. Most of them can also use dial-up internet service. BTCL has the largest telecom infrastructure comprising of copper cabling, microwave links, satellite links, optical fibre networks etc. The call rates and internet rates are cheaper than those of other operators. ADSL Broadband internet service is available now with present capacity of 33 thousands. BTCL earned 15653 million taka revenue in 2007-08 and 20813 million taka revenue in 2008-09 fiscal year. Number of Sanctioned posts is 19066. Working manpower on 30th June 2009 was 10325 (regular). In addition to this, about 5000 employees have been working as work-charged and casual.
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