Representational image. — UNB photo.
Locals and journalists of different media houses who gathered in Khulna to cover the divisional rally of Bangladesh Nationalist Party claimed that they faced a slow internet service from around Saturday afternoon.
Mujahidul Islam, owner of a computer operating shop in Khulna city, said that there was no issue in broadband network but mobile internet was quite slow.
Ehteshamul Hague Shaon, a Khulna-based journalist of Jashore-based daily ‘Dainik Loksamaj’, said that he was ‘unable to send any photos of the BNP rally to office due to slow speed of internet.’
Some other journalists claimed that they had faced the same issue with mobile internet.
A mobile service operator on condition of anonymity told UNB that Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Corporation directed the mobile service operators to shut down 3G and 4G internet services in Khulna division until further notice through an email around 1:20pm.
However, BTRC did not mention any specific reason for downgrading the internet, he said.
Posts and telecommunications minister Mustafa Jabbar said, ‘I have no information about such an issue or direction.’
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