A Bangladeshi court Friday July 10,2015 barred mobile phone users
from using film songs from India and other nations in the sub-continent
as ringtones or welcome tunes, in a ruling likely to affect the
country's 121 million subscribers.
The High Court directed "abstention" from the use of songs and tunes from Hindi movies, Indian Bangla movies and movies from any other country in the Indian subcontinent as Value Added Services (VAS) of the mobile operators
The bench of justices Farah Mahbub and Kazi Md Ejarul Haque Akondo issued the order with a rule after hearing a writ petition.
Petitioner's lawyer Mehedi Hasan Chowdhury said the court issued the rule asking as to why the use of these songs and tunes as VAS offered by mobile operators should not be declared illegal.
Secretaries of culture, information, home and law ministries, BTRC chairman and all mobile operators in the country were asked to reply within four weeks
Note
The total number of mobile phone subscriptions in Bangladesh stood at over 121 million in January this year, according to data available on the website of Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission.
The High Court directed "abstention" from the use of songs and tunes from Hindi movies, Indian Bangla movies and movies from any other country in the Indian subcontinent as Value Added Services (VAS) of the mobile operators
The bench of justices Farah Mahbub and Kazi Md Ejarul Haque Akondo issued the order with a rule after hearing a writ petition.
Petitioner's lawyer Mehedi Hasan Chowdhury said the court issued the rule asking as to why the use of these songs and tunes as VAS offered by mobile operators should not be declared illegal.
Secretaries of culture, information, home and law ministries, BTRC chairman and all mobile operators in the country were asked to reply within four weeks
Note
The total number of mobile phone subscriptions in Bangladesh stood at over 121 million in January this year, according to data available on the website of Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission.
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