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DHAKA, May 20, 2025 (BSS) - Chief Adviser's Special Assistant Faiz Ahmad Taiyeb today said through Starlink, a new generation of entrepreneurs could be created as WiFi ladies following the "phone lady concept" of Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus.
"Through Starlink, companies and financial organisations can create a new generation of entrepreneurs as WiFi ladies applying our microcredit or EMI or any MFI/MRA system," he told a press briefing at the Foreign Service Academy here.
Taiyeb said if financial institutions or NGOs want, they can give special loan only to rural women through which they can sell internet services with Starlink.
"In that case, apart from buildings, you can also join this process through informal co-working businesses," he added.
The special assistant said the government will help Starlink entrepreneurs manage loans from microcredit authority or financial organisations or banks.
"We are also planning to work on a financial package for those who will be civic service entrepreneurs, - how to easily take Starlink services," he said.
Taiyeb said the government has made the Non-Geostationary Orbit (NGSO) regulations in such a way that Starlink or similar internet facilities become entrepreneur-friendly.
If an entrepreneur or multiple entrepreneurs form a fund of Taka 47,000, they will be able to buy an internet setup box through this fund, he said.
By buying it, they will be able to sell or provide this internet service in their nearby shops or other people, he said.
Chief Adviser's Press Secretary Shafiqul Alam and Deputy Press Secretary Abul Kalam Azad Majumder were present at a press briefing.
