The mobile network of Grameenphone has been repaired, said the telecom service provider’s head of communications Khairul Bashar on Thursday afternoon.
Khairul Bashar said this to Prothom Alo at around 2:10 pm. Earlier in the day he said it might take two hours to repair the network.
The network was repaired within two hours of disruption.
Users of Grameenphone complained of not being able to make any call from different parts of the country, including the capital city, as the network of the service provider was down from just a few minutes after 12:00 pm.
In a statement, Grameenphone said the network outage was the result of damage of its fibre optic cables in two spots in Sirajganj and one spot in Tangail. The cables were damaged by bulldozers that were working on road development projects, it added.
Khairul Bashar said the situation is under control now as the damage has been repaired.