Bhutan Telecom

Bhutan Telecom Limited
འབྲུག་པརྒྱུད་འཕྲིན་ཚད
state-owned
Industry Telecommunications, Mobile telephony, Internet service provider
Founded July 1, 2000 (2000-07-01)
Headquarters 2/28 Drophen Lam, Thimphu, Bhutan
Area served
Bhutan
Key people
Tshewang Gyeltshen (CEO)
Products Fixed-line, Broadband, Web hosting, Cloud services, GSM, GPRS, EDGE, UMTS, HSDPA, LTE
Website www.bt.bt

Bhutan Telecom (Dzongkha: འབྲུག་པརྒྱུད་འཕྲིན) is a telecommunications and Internet services provider in the Kingdom of Bhutan. It is the sole fixed line telephony provider in the country. It also operates the B-Mobile mobile service and the DrukNet Internet service.

History

Bhutan Telecom was established on 1 July 2000.[1]

B-Mobile

B-Mobile provides service in all 205 Gewogs (Blocks) in Bhutan.[2] It operates on 900/1800 MHz GSM/GPRS/EDGE, 850 MHz UMTS/HSDPA and 1800MHz LTE frequencies.

LTE 4G was first launched in Thimphu on 24th of October, 2013. 4G service operates in 1800 MHz - band 3 (FDD).[3]

See also

References

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