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The 3G and 4G mobile internet is back after a 10-hour blackout ahead of the national election.
The data services resumed at around 8:00 am on Friday following a directive from telecoms regulators, several officials of mobile service providers have said.
Mobile operators said they received ‘instructions’ for temporarily shutting down high-speed internet services on Thursday night.
“We began implementing the decision after being informed of it at around 10:30 pm,” an official of the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BRTC) had said.
The BTRC had instructed operators to continue 2G internet and voice call services until further notice, bdnews24.com reported.
The number of internet connections was over 91.8 million as of November, according to the BTRC. That includes 86 million mobile phone internet connections.
Bangladesh is going to parliamentary elections on December 30. Cutting off mobile internet ahead of the election has been discussed as a method to prevent fake news and propaganda messages from spreading on social media and video-sharing sites.