Bangladesh's first satellite project gets ITU award in Bangkok

State Minister for Telecoms Tarana Halim received the award from ITU Secretary General Houlin Zhao on Thursday night at ITU Telecom World Awards 2016 held in Bangkok.

Bangladesh has been given the award in the category for ‘Recognition of Excellence’, the minister said in a Facebook post.

“The world has witnessed the great strides made in telecommunications in Bangladesh through ‘Bangladesh Pavilion’ set up for the first time at the ITU Telecom World-2016, Bangkok,” she wrote.

Around 4,000 ICT professionals and government officials from across the globe attended the international exhibition held from Nov 14 to 17.

A replica of Bangabandhu-1 was displayed at the Bangladesh Pavilion.

The state minister earlier said 40 percent of the work for geostationary communications satellite projects has been completed at France’s Thales Alenia Space.