State of telecommunications in Bangladesh

In preparation to the Bangladesh Conference on 24 and 25 February 2011 (www.focuss.info/bangladesh) I am reading more about it's culture, structure and connectivity. The following is a section from the book 'A History of Bangladesh' by Willem van Schendel. The book is from 2009, so I thought it would give a great and updated inside.

Foreign aid and migration forced powerful transnational links, but nothing demonstrates better the sheer speed of change than the advances made in telecommunications. The delta had long been neglected in this respect. For example, in the 1970s it was a familiar experience to see a high official pick up one of several brightly coloured telephones on his desk and start shouting at the top of his voice in an attempt to make his words reach a colleague in the same city over the crackle of static and cross-wired conversations. Thirty years later, it was almost as common to see an illiterate village woman saunter over from her hut with no electricity to a neighbour's house, switch on a mobile phone and talk quietly to her son in Dubai. Within a generation, the way information travelled around the Bengal delta had been revolutionised. In the 1970s most Bangladeshis depended on word of mouth, newspapers, letters, telegrams and radio. A non-local telephone call took hours to arrange, and television was beyond the means of middle-class families. By the 1980s television came within their reach and began to spread to the rural areas, followed by mobile phones and all kinds of portable electronic devices. Even now electricity had not reached many parts of the countryside - but towns were connected and information about the outside world spread much more rapidly than before. Today the Bangladesh middle classes also have  become enthusiastic participants in global cyberspace: numorous Bengali founts are now available online, and Bangladeshi websites and discussion groups are multiplying rapidly.