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Telecom companies say nationwide connectivity is under pressure as outages hit towers and data infrastructure<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In recent weeks, making a simple phone call has become a daily struggle for Md Mosharraf at Char Bahadurpur, a village at Phulpur upazila in Mymensingh district. For it, he blames prolonged power cuts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNowadays, we get electricity for less than five hours a day. Once the electricity is gone, there is no network,\u201d said Mosharraf. \u201cI can\u2019t even speak through my phone most of the time.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Currently, this problem is no longer limited to remote villages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mobile operators and tower companies say network quality has deteriorated over the weeks as power cuts<\/a> have become more frequent and fuel supplies have worsened following the war in the Middle East.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During power outages, operators depend on battery backups at tower sites. Most sites, however, have backup capacity for only four to six hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhen cuts last longer than that, there is no way to recharge the batteries,\u201d said Shahed Alam, chief corporate and regulatory affairs officer at Robi Axiata.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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