City Desk :
The Information and Broadcasting Ministry has taken 10 decisions to stop the illegal broadcasting of domestic and foreign TV channels and the operation of unlicensed commercial activities on the broadcast media.
The ministry took the decisions at a meeting with the Posts, Telecommunications and ICT Ministry at the Information and Broadcasting Ministry’s conference room on 2 April, said an official release today.
State Minister for Information and Broadcasting Mohammad Ali Arafat chaired the meeting.
The decisions are: only service providers permitted under the Cable Television Network Management Act, 2006 can transmit domestic and foreign channels approved by the government to the subscribers.
Foreign channels or unauthorised channels cannot be downlinked, broadcast, transmitted or distributed without clean feed.
Set-top boxes cannot be imported and marketed illegally. It is completely illegal to carry out campaigns inspiring the use of apps for streaming TV channels or selling such apps by installing them in set-top-boxes. The Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) should take legal action against this illegal act.