non government industry telecommunication founded dhaka bangladesh founder mr. t i m nurun nabi headquarters 1st floor hayes & haier center plot 6 road 7d uttara dhaka 1230 bangladesh dhaka number of locations 206 exchanges nationwide area served all over bangladesh services pstn telecom hosted call centre solution centrex isp number of employees 350 website http www.ptelco.net peoples telecommunication & information services ltd. peoplestel bengali is a bangladeshi fixed line operator . it is a private public switched telephone network pstn operator isp and hosted call centre service provider in bangladesh . contents 1 history 1.1 chronology 2 2 company information 2.1 company slogan 2.2 key persons 2.3 subscriber base 3 numbering scheme 4 services and solutions 5 references history edit peoples telecommunication and information services ltd. peoplestel bengali is the successor company of bangladesh rural telecom authority brta pvt ltd. 1 established in 1989 brta started its operation to provide digital communication in 203 rural thanas smallest administrative area of bangladesh throughout north north east and north west region of the country . the agreement was done between the bangladesh government represented by bangladesh telegraph & telephone board bttb the government owned telephone company . later in 1993 this agreement was revised and brta was provided with the license to operate in 199 thanas . by being the first private telecom operator in bangladesh brta paved the way for telecom privatisation in bangladesh . newly formed btrc divided the country into five operating zones for pstn operators north west north east south west south east and central . in 2003 brtc decided to provide licenses for 4 out of the five zones except central zone . peoplestel obtained their 4 zonal license in 2004 and then on 17 march 2008 obtained the licence to operate in central zone after btrc decided to issue central zone licenses to a number pstn operators on 25 june 2007 . chronology 2 edit 1989 bangladesh rural telecom authority brta rural pstn license by the ministry of posts and telecommunications of bangladesh . 1993 license renewed . 15 december 2003 brta was bifurcated into two new companies with a mutual agreement among the directors . february 2004 peoplestel is incorporated and given licenses by btrc to operate in four out of the five zones . 17 march 2008 peoplestel obtained the license to operate in the central zone dhaka thus becoming a nationwide pstn operator . company information edit company slogan edit everywhere and for all bengali key persons edit chairman mr. t i m nurun nabi directors mr. shamim shawkat and mrs. shamima nabi subscriber base edit as of january 2010 peoplestel has over 150 thousand subscribers 3 nationwide . numbering scheme edit peoplestel uses the following numbering scheme for its subscribers 880 38 n1n2n3n4n5n6n7n8 where 880 is the international subscriber dialling code for bangladesh and is needed only in case of dialling from outside . 38 is the access code for peoplestel as allocated by the government of bangladesh . omitting 880 will require to use 0 in place of it instead to represent local call hence 038 is the general access code . although 038 has been allocated to peoplestel 0381 is the local code for btcl in lakhipur and btcl is in the process to phase out these numbers . services and solutions edit peoplestel provides a various range of services . along with being a pstn operator peoplestel is also a nationwide isp 4 and hosted call centre service provider . 5 peoplestel is the first operator in bangladesh to launch telephony ip network . 6 the system enables peoplestel to offer postpaid and prepaid calling card callback softphone and international call forwarding icf . due to licensing restriction imposed by btrc calling card services and softphone is currently not active . however icf web call back and voice mail services are active . on 8 august 2009 peoplestel signed the largest ever telecommunication corporate deal with jamuna group for 31 000 fixed line phones centrex solution internet and data connectivity services . 7 8 on 6 march 2007 peoplestel announces network expansion plan . 9 10 references edit company information peoplestel peoplestel website brtc pstn subscriber statistics january 2010 list of nationwide isps of bangladesh list of hosted call centre service providers of bangladesh 2007 09 12 vsc provides the first telephony ip network to bangladesh the financial express report peoplestel ropes in jamuna future park in largest telecom deal new age report peoplestel inks corporate deal with jamuna group the daily star report peoplestel announces network expansion plan bangladesh s peoplestel aims to net 1 million subscribers by 2012 v t e pstn operators of bangladesh bijoy phone btcl national telecom limited onetel communication ltd. peoplestel rankstel telebarta satel coordinates 23 52 39 n 90 24 03 e 23.877492611 n 90.4008734424 e 23.877492611 ; 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