One Bangladeshi court today barred mobile phone users from -- using film songs from India and other nations in the sub-continent as ringtones or -- welcome tunes, in a ruling likely to affect the country's 121 million subscribers.
The High Court directed "abstention" from the use of songs and tunes from -- Hindi movies, Indian Bangla movies and movies from any other country in the Indian subcontinent as Value Added Services (VAS) of the mobile operators, -- bdnews24 online reported.
The total number of mobile phone subscriptions in Bangladesh stood at over -- 121 million in January this year, according to data available on the website of Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission.
SRC: NDTV, India
