edotco extends smart city initiatives

edotco Bangladesh, an integrated telecommunications infrastructure services company, signed an agreement with Sylhet City Corporation on Sunday to deploy smart poles with the vision of building a smart city for its citizens.

This partnership aims to ensure that citizens of Sylhet City Corporation have accessible and improved connectivity, said an edotco statement on Monday.

According to the statement, this smart pole solution will help mobile network operators and other technology service providers to enhance their network capacity/coverage and meet the emerging demand of increased data usage by the end consumers.

To meet the current growth in data traffic, this innovative and sustainable solution will support to reduce data congestion, provide positive customer experiences, and will contribute to achieve the nation’s digital ambition by addressing the infra readiness to cater advanced technologies in the upcoming days.

In addition to improved connectivity access, an energy-saving LED light facility is integrated with this smart pole and will have the provisions to install other smart features like security surveillance, digital signage that will come as a benefit to the citizens. Initially, edotco will be working with two sites under Sylhet City Corporation which expects to expand in the future upon a mutual understanding with the said authority, said the statement.

Sylhet City Corporation Mayor Ariful Haque Choudhury and edotco Country Managing Director Ricky Steyn were present on the occasion.

Ariful Haque Choudhury said, “It is one of our commitments to convert Sylhet into a smart city, where improved city experiences will be available to all our citizens. Being a partner of the Smart City Initiatives, we are getting one step closer to achieving the country’s Digital Vision. Fundamentally, a consolidated and standardized mobile network structure is an inseparable component of the Smart City. With that notion, we’re excited to jointly work with edotco to ensure our citizens get the most accessible connectivity features.