Facebook from Grameenphone : Updating facebook by SMS

I didn't know about the service from the beginning, but yesterday when I caome to know that banglalink has introduced this facebook sms service, I gave an status at facebook, and some of my friends informed about the GP facebook sms services.

So, I tried it and become successful!!

Its a great step for country like Bangladesh – where Internet penetration is very low but mobile phone covers a wide network, I know many people who use facebook but don't have internet enabled set or don't use internet from their cell phones, so SMS is a great option/doorway for them!!

Now... come to the features .. what to do....?

Its very simple – type fb and send sms to 2555

at the return message you will get a code and a link, if you are from a net enabled mobile phone, then its better you follow the link and give your mail add and password if you aren't previously logged it via mobile net!!

if you aren't from any net enabled device, then go to facebook → account → Account settings → Mobile and give the confirmation code for the respective number.

Thats it!!

Now you can post your status via text sms from your number & interestingly get some notification (Message, Add request, Comment at photo) for free of cost!!!!

How to update status from GP via sms??

Type a sms starting by is and send to 2555

Even you can do other things via sms:

you can send message, post to friends wall, add friends, get friends cell number and so on....

to know the sms settings in details please click here

Thats it, its better to have the sms access with your number.

Thank you – Have a nice Day!!

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Grameenphone Internet : GP prepaid unlimited internet is back

Grameen Phone Internet – OK, at least it can be said it’s the most widespread internet service in Bangladesh (though still lack 3^rd Generation – 3G services), but not bad regarding other services.

 Initially they had only 1 service for prepaid internet – that was – p1 pay as you go…

Eventually they provided p2 (unlimited internet service) to prepaid which was initially present only at post paid services! Then GP came out with lots of different services like limited internet of 1GB & 3GB limit. Not only that they provided 1 day unlimited internet services and the recent addition is 15MB – mini pack internet service (Grameen Phone Internet: GP new mini internet package for prepaid!).

Beside these prepaid services they had unlimited night internet services for postpaid subscribers.

BUT!! After launching P5 & P6 they restricted the p2 (unlimited) service for prepaid users. So, if you are net freak, you had to move to post paid for proper internet services or move to Banglalink prepaid unlimited service which speed is not as good as GP!

And at last GP have understood the need of the subscribers of GP and restarted the unlimited service for prepaid again at 9-8-2010 .

That’s really great, as If you do a lots of things at internet – Net surfing, blogging, chatting, surfing at google earth, uploading lots of photos at facebook or twitter, online job - you can use this service – But remember about the fair usage policy of GP internet, if you are going to use P2P connection please read the GP agreements before using!

What to do – type p2 and send to 5000 and then confirm it by sending Y to same number.

Charge – Its better U recharge 1000Tk before doing process though it doesn’t require that much. (Exact money is 982.10Tk including VAT and 2 sms charge).

To know other GP services you can visit this blog – Grameenphone internet : GP pre paid internet packages

Thank you!

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success of 1st Bangladeshi pro Golfer – Siddikur Rahman

Cricket – yes its the most popular sports in this region, and in terms of International success, Cricket is the most successful sports in comparison with other sports. If you think the next one - no doubt its Football.

But this time success come from Golf. Siddikur Rahman became the first Bangladeshi golfer to win on the Asian Tour when he triumphed in a play-off at the Brunei Open on 1st August.

Congratulation Siddikur Rahman, its a great achievement for Bangladesh. We trust, now Golf will become popular in Bangladesh.

He said to the tour web site :

“It is very exciting. I’m the first Bangladeshi to play on the Asian Tour and in the two years that I’m on Tour, I have finally won a tournament. I hope to inspire more people to take up the game of golf in Bangladesh. This is a good victory for me and my country.”
I salute his hard working nature, which helps him to reach this height, you know, he is the person who starts as a Ball Boy at Kurmitola Golf Club.

His hard work to reach his dream made him the first pro Golfer of Bangladesh & he is still trying to reach the height of his dream. We all pray and hope for that.

And, our government and media should focus and encourage this kind of personal achievement in any sector. It'll encourage others to work in new field which isn't popular in Bangladesh yet. Not only the media and government, sponsors should give emphasis for this kind of new sports & innovative works.


Great Go, Bangladesh. :)

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Banglalink Internet :: Banglalink pre paid 'desh' internet packages

Banglalink is the second largest mobile company in Bangladesh following Grameenphone. Though grameenphone is the pioneer mobile company for Mobile internet in Bangladesh, now a days Banglalink is giving importance in its internet service.


But, where Grameen phone and robi (aktel) have different packages for mobile internet , there Banglalink has only 2 packages and those are call package specific!


# Packages of Banglalink pre paid internet :

P1 : on the go package
It costs 0.02tk per kb and it doesn't require and monthly bundle money.
You can use it in any packages of Banglalink prepaid - Desh, ek desh, ek desh ek rate, rongdhonu, desh rang!
How to activate : write P1 & send to 3343

P2 : unlimited internet for 15 days!
Charge - 350tk/15 days
How to activate : write P2 & send to 3343
But the most irritating matter is, you can't use it in any prepaid call package, only desh users can use this!
How funny! For me 'ek desh ek rate' package suites me, but if I want to use unlimited net, then I have to convert to the tradition old call rate package!
But, GP doesn't have these kinda problems, one can use any prepaid packages in any call rate plan - Shohoj, Bondhu, Apon!
What ever, there's no option for checking usage limit as Banglalink doesn't have any data limited service for prepaid!

Settings in mobile:
You have to save apn: blweb
Settings in pc suite:

Same apn have to be given : blweb


Coverage:
You'll get Banglalink mobile internet where they've their mobile network.
But you'll get EDGE service only at large cities!

Published from my Nokia N82

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Facebook Bangladesh : Bangladesh is deprived of facebook sms and zero facebook

Facebook is the most popular social networking website in Bangladesh and according to alexa facebook is the 2nd popular website in Bangladesh. Even its more popular than some very popular website like yahoo.com and google.com.bd .

But facebook do not give proper importance to Bangladesh in terms of their mobile services.

It was started from facebook sms service, most of the south Asian countries have the chance to update their facebook status by sending sms; they get their notification directly to their mobile by sms, but this service is not available in Bangladesh.

We started a facebook group - We want facebook SMS service in Bangladesh!! to show facebook Bangladeshi users demand to start facebook sms service in Bangladesh.

We want facebook SMS service & 0.facebook.com in Bangladesh!!

Facebook sms hasn't statrted in Bangladesh yet now.


Moreover we are deprived of the new facebook mobile service - zero facebook !!!

some information about zero facebook:

zero facebook

zero facebook – 0.facebook.com is the new mobile website for facebook where you can use facebook without any cost – absolutely free. Means you don't have to pay your service provider to update your status or to comment any link or status or to like them. Its similar to the normal mobile faacebook just it doesn't have the photo service, you can't watch any photo from this site. You'll get more information from here.

Sad but true, Bangladesh isn't listed for zero facebook!!!

Today we've changed our previous group name from We want facebook SMS service in Bangladesh!! to We want facebook SMS service & 0.facebook.com in Bangladesh!!

if you want to support us and want these services in Bangladesh, join this group (& request your friends) and write to facebook to start these services in Bangladesh.

Some comparison between other countries in terms of facebook popularity:

as I've mentioned initially that facebook is the second popular website in Bangladesh , In India its the 4th popular website and in Pakistan and Srilanka its in third position.

Don't understand after having extreme popularity in Bangladesh why facebook don't give the same importance what they give to other south Asian countries!!!!

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Congratulation to Musa Ibrahim : 1st Bangladeshi to conquer Mount Everest

Its the 1^st time when the red and green flag is flying in the top most area of the world. Its by the young man Musa Ibrahim, he has scaled Mount everest for the 1^st time as a Bangladeshi. He haven't returned to Bangladesh yet, The whole Bangladesh is waiting for the Hero.

Grameenphone internet : GP pre paid internet packages

Grameenphone, which is the best mobile company in Bangladesh in terms of internet use, has different types of packages for any kind of GP pre paid package sohoj, bondhu, apon, djuice!
All of them have bounded data limit except the pay as you go offer. Its good in terms of fair usage policy.

Here is the packages for pre paid grameenphone internet!

Package 1 : P1 : pay as you go
Its the basic offer and the oldest as well. If you use internet, you'll pay according to your data usage not according to the time of usage.
Rate is .02Tk per KB

Numerically second offer for pre paid is P4. ( P2 and P3 is only for post paid now)


Package 4 : P4 : One day 150MB
Its the offer which was one the most popular offer when it came out 1st. You can use 150MB of data by 12 am after you have started the offer.

Charge per package 60tk without vat.

Type p4 and send it to 5000


Package 5 : P5 : monthly 3GB internet
Its the monthly internet service where the Data limit is 3GB. Nice one for moderate user who browses a lot and seldom download any large file.

Monthly charge 700tk without vat.

Type p5 and send it to 5000


Package 6 : P6 : monthly 1GB internet
Its the monthly internet service where the Data limit is 1GB. Nice one for moderate mobile user who seldom browses from pc or laptop.

Monthly charge 300tk without vat.

Type p6 and send it to 5000


Package 7 : P7 : mini package internet
Its the 15 days internet service where the Data limit is 15MB. Nice one for regular mobile net user who just love to update the facebook and twitter a lot seldom browse any large site from mobile.

Charge per package 29tk without vat.

Type p7 and send it to 5000


Data usage limit check up is important!

They have made it easy to check data usage and to know the remaining data.
You have to dial *566*10# from your phone and GP will give all information related your remainig data limit!

But for p7, its *566*1#

Still now Bangladesh internet penetration is extremely low in comparison with total population! Hope the new technologies will make it easy and user friendly so that the internet penetration ratio of Bangladesh will increase.

:-)

Further info::
GP unlimited prepaid is back - Grameenphone Internet : GP prepaid unlimited internet is back

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Bangladeshi Blogger : Bangladesh Blog : Thanks to BD BLOGGERZ

Blog is becoming popular in Bangladesh now a days. Its a very good sign for us as blog is establishing it as a separate powerful media beside the tele and print media. Rather its more important as it is based on both way communication and there is chance of active participation of everyone both activly and passively.

In Bangladesh, community blogs is most popular now.

Somewhere in blog

Prothom alo blog – প্রথম আলো ব্লগ

Amar blog – আমার ব্লগ

Sachalayatan - সচলায়তন

Nagorik blog – নাগরিক ব্লগ



In community blogs its easy to find any topic you are interested in and following any blogger as well. But its tough in case of the other platform of blogging – personal blogging.

Personal blogging is also becoming popular with community blog, but in personal blogging its really tough to get the important blog as one have to search these blogs in web or blog searching engine. So, blogs ranking according to search engine is very important here, which is a little complicated.

In most of the countries there are common on-line platform where one can find blog from same national origin. I was finding same kinda platform for Bangladeshi blogs, But initially I couldn't find any one. But suddenly few days back I found the link of BD BLOGGERZ in one Bangladeshi blog.



Hey BD BLOGGERZ is the on-line platform where you can find the Bangladeshi blogs which has been submitted here by the blogger and granted by admin.

Thanks to BD BLOGGERZ, they really have done a great job in Bangladeshi blog history.

Here you can find both English and Bangla (বাংলা) blogging platform, You can find both personal and community blogs of Bangladesh.

What you have to do, you have to submit you blog here and add Badge of this website to your blog.

In terms of BD BLOGGERZ badges, they have interesting and different kind of badges; I'm sure it'll draw your readers attraction.

Hat off to BD BLOGGERZ for their great job.

Hope in future you will come forward with some more interesting topics like ranking of blog or specialization of blog according to topics.

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World Malaria Day : Approximately half of the world's population is at risk of malaria

Yes! It’s Malaria, which infects more than 500 million people per year and kills more than 1 million. Just imagine - approximately half of the world's population is at risk of malaria. Now we all have to come forward and become united to fight against it.

Here the world map showing the area of Malaria Endemic zone and giving information about Chloroquine resistant and non resistant area.

My country Bangladesh is in Chloroquine resistant area, and Malaria Infection in my country is not very uncommon!

Here is the situation of Malaria in my country (icddrb map)

But Malaria is common in our capital city - Dhaka as well.

What ever, what you can do, you can work against Malaria. 25 April is the World Malaria Day. you can join the event from bellow.

Count yourself in to Count Malaria Out and join the global community in working to ensure that every man, woman and child in malaria-affected regions has access to essential prevention and treatment services by 2010.

Click here to Count yourself in

Best of luck to you and for our next generation. 
We have to work together to fight against this deadly but preventable and curable diseases. Try to make awareness among the people beside you and help promoting the event through internet.

:-)

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Watched the Movie “Gohine Shobdo” (গহীনে শব্দ)

Suddenly we took the decision to watch a movie as our ophthalmology block was ended today. In Bashundhara Cineplex Transformer 2 and one bangla cinema was going on. Somehow most people voted to watch the bangla movie. Till then neither I knew the name of that movie nor the theme of that movie.

What ever, after reaching the Cineplex I came to know the name of the movie - “Gohine Shobdo” (গহীনে শব্দ) … and from the displaying poster of the hero and heroin I thought it would be a movie of typical bangla love story. At that time for me, movie wasn't important, we friends are watching movie together- it was more important for me!!!

after buying snacks and cold drinks entered the cinema hall and the movie started.....

the movie started with the most popular bangla festival “poleha Boishakh” mongol jatra. Then a regular love story between 2 students of CharuKola one of them is Niloy and other one is Swapna. They both were from a very different family financially. I found a clear line of difference between rich and poor family life style which is happening in our society.

Niloy came from a very rich and educated family, where Swapna came from an absolutely different family – her father was a street beggar. Their love story continued in as usual fashion but after knowing Swapna's identity Niloy escaped from his society.....

The film ends with a song where an eminent singer arranges a concert for the beggars. The beggars circle around and move singing with lamps in their hands. The life cycle is complete.

Occasionally the life cycle is disturbed but it never stops. The human beings like Swapna restart a new life and once again the life cycle begins.

Now a days our Bangla movies are showing signs of development, hope by 2 – 3 years we will have some powerful movie director and their artistic work.

Music of this movie was nice specially the last one of singer Haider. I didn't expect anything good from the movie, but found it as a really interesting movie in the field of social differences and social struggle in society, specially the how the barrier of financial support works in case of one university student to find her identity as a Graduate or as a girl from a poor family!!!

Nice one. Good work by Mr. Khalid Mahmud Mithu and good movie by Impress Telefilm!

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NO way!! permanently switched to GrameenPhone!!

For more than 2 years I have been using Banglalink for my call and some sort of internet usage. Banglalink internet was not that bad, but suddenly for few days it is creating several problems specially in terms of internet usage.

Here comes the most funny character of the Banglalink internet, it connects with net at my parents room (beside my room) and gets a good net connection as well but strangely in my room it doesn't get connect with Banglalink internet!!!! its really strange, what ever, it was not possible to use this kind of net any more.

More over, in Bangladesh if anyone goes outside any big city he'll get GPRS connection in Banglalink, but in case of GrameenPhone one will get EDGE in most of the peripheral area in my country.


Not only that, but also GP has different internet packages for prepaid and it can be used in any prepaid package. But in banglalink, :-S only one package and it must be used in a fixed call rate (desh). Its very uncomfortable for anyone to use this kind of services.

So, using GrameenPhone for both net usage and call services.

Sharing the net speed of GP in my location:



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Review of Banglalink Internet speed!

As we don't have 3G service in our country, so for mobile browsing we have to rely on EDGE.
Now-a-days most of our mobile subscribers are providing EDGE service. In my last post I compared between GP & Banglalink internet.

In my previous post “using Banglalink Internet” I wrote about Banglalink speed, then someone of my junior colleagues said about his Banglalink speed which is about 28kbps (where I get 15-16kbps).

Yes It can happen, as these mobile internet services are based on location, data usage by other people under same BTS, distance fro BTS, obstruction from BTS.... so, I have checked my Banglalink internet speed again from speedtest.net!

But, its almost same for me, I'm getting average 15-16kbps with lots of fluctuation.
Here is the speedtest result.

Don't know when we will able to use 3G in Bangladesh. Sad but true most of the south Asian countries have this service but we don't.

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Dual sim Dual standby mobile... :-)

Nokia has not introduced any dual sim dual standby mobile; rather this culture (feature) rather started by the non-brand Chinese mobiles.... but now some of the giants are following this as like samsung, LG, Philips, Acer... (all have come out with dual sim dual standby phone) but among them samsung Duos series is far ahead then others....

But there are lots of dual sim dual standby mobile in the market of south asia (India, Bangladesh,Pakistan)... these sets are cheap than the brand ones....

These phones were not much popular to every group of people, as most of these were only simple basic phone.... but things are changing.... now lots of new Chinese non-brand mobile comes with in build facebook feature, opera mini for browsing, Qwerty keypad, java support... even with some warranty services....

not bad for a very low price...

In Bangladesh Symphony, cellOne; in India Micromax, Karbon and many unpopular brand and non brand phones are available....

Planning to take a new Chinese Qwerty keypad mobile...... (hope for a normal day to day use beside Nokia N82,it will be useful)

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Today is our victory day :-)

Today 16 Dec is our victory day, at this day we won the war against Pakistanand get our own land Bangladesh in 1971.

Sad but true, still now we can not make the Justice of war criminals ofLiberation war in 1971 rather, by doing different type of politics they establish themselves in a better position!!

Sad but true, we still shout against those war criminals for the justice!!!

What ever, at least now a days we are watching a new flow of Respect for the countries in the young generation...... hope, this will lead to the Real Bangladesh for which our freedom fighters fought a 71.....

Figure: Flag of Bangladesh

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