Dhaka, Nov. 1 -- Chief Adviser's Special Assistant on Ministry of Posts, Telecommunications and Information Technology Faiz Ahmad Taiyeb has emphasised the importance of registering mobile handsets brought from abroad, saying that such registration is a standard practice worldwide.
"Mobile phones brought from abroad must be registered, and this is a common rule across the world," he said in a Facebook post.
He wrote, "It is associated with various issues including wrong SIM registration/eKYC, wrong MFS registration or eKYC, crimes related to SIM, crimes related to mobile financing, online gambling and scamming, crimes involving illegal cloned phones, non-payment of patent and technological royalties, evasion of VAT and customs duties, pre...