Dhaka, Feb. 16 -- The floor price of international incoming call will be $0.006 or Tk 0.50 per minute from now on. The rate was about Tk 1.50 previously.

The BTRC sent letters to the IGW Operators' Forum, the International Gateway or IGW and Interconnection Exchange or ICX operators and others concerned on the revised call rate recently.

The revenue from these calls will be distributed among the BTRC, IGW and ICX operators and Access Network Services or ANS providers in line with the new floor price.

The BTRC gets 40 percent of the revenues from incoming calls from abroad while IGW operators get 20 percent, ICX operators 17.5 percent and ANS providers 22.5 percent.

The telecom regulator has long been saying that Bangladesh's internati...