2. Historical Milestone Bangladesh Submarine Cable Company
Limited (BSCCL) is a Telecommunications
Commercial Launch
infrastructure service provider 100% owned
• 22 Nov 2010 by the Government of the Peoples Republic
Fiber Length of
Bangladesh under (MoPT).
• 20000Km
By providing submarine cable Bandwidth
Historical Background
Branch Cable through the SEA-ME-WE-4 cable system
BSCCL is contributing to the revenue
• 1260KM
earning of the Government of Bangladesh..
Capacity
• 160 Lamda
Currently, the company has a capacity of
44.60 Gbps in the Submarine Cable and has
Initial Capacity applied for
• 7.57 Gbps more capacity in Upgrade # 3 to achieve an
additional capacity of 7 million MIU*km.
Consortium Member Presently
• 16 Companies of 14 countries the country is utilizing about 23% of the
available capacity.
Construction cost The Company made a Net Profit of Tk.
• 35.2 M 11.55 crore during the FY 2008-2009
3. Date Details MIU*KM BSCCL No of STM-1 Capacity
Cumulative cumulative Gbps
Capacity
MIU*KM
27.03.0 Initial Allocation 6781449 468703 48.82 7.57
4
01.05.0 NCE#1 release 281221 749924 78.11 12.11
6
01.05.0 Adhoc release 166194 916118 95.42 14.79
6
09.10.0 First upgarde 577824 1493942 155.6 24.12
7 release
22.11.0 Back from 50000 154394 160.81 29.31
7 common pool
2009 Upgrade -2 1218462 2762405 287.72 44.60
MIU*KM=Minimum investment unit (STM-1/155Mb/s)
