Bhutan Telecom

Telecommunications
Mobile network operator
Internet service provider

Founded1 July 2000; 23 years ago (2000-07-01)Headquarters2/28 Drophen Lam, Thimphu, Bhutan

Area served

Bhutan

Key people

Karma Jurme
(CEO)Products

Fixed-line telephony
Mobile telephony
Broadband
Web hosting
Cloud services
GSM
GPRS
EDGE
UMTS
HSDPA
LTE

Websitewww.bt.bt

This article contains Tibetan script. Without proper rendering support, you may see very small fonts, misplaced vowels or missing conjuncts instead of Tibetan characters.

Bhutan Telecom (Dzongkha: འབྲུག་བརྒྱུད་འཕྲིན) is a telecommunications and Internet service provider in the Kingdom of Bhutan. It is the sole fixed-line telephony provider in the country. It also operates the B-Mobile mobile service and the DrukNet Internet service.

History

Bhutan Telecom was established on 1 July 2000.^[1]

B-Mobile

B-Mobile provides service in all 205 Gewogs (Blocks) in Bhutan.^[2] It operates on 900/1800 MHz GSM/GPRS/EDGE, 850 MHz UMTS/HSDPA and 1800 MHz LTE frequencies.

LTE 4G was first launched in Thimphu on 24 October 2013. 4G service operates in 1800 MHz - band 3 (FDD).^[3]

References

^ "Bhutan Telecom - Company Profile". Archived from the original on 15 August 2016. Retrieved 27 September 2016.
^ "Bhutan Telecom - About". Archived from the original on 15 August 2016. Retrieved 27 September 2016.
^ "Bhutan Telecom - 4G". Archived from the original on 15 August 2016. Retrieved 27 September 2016.