{"id":9065,"date":"2025-11-22T10:36:32","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T04:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bicma.gov.bt\/?p=9065"},"modified":"2025-11-22T10:36:53","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T04:36:53","slug":"notification-revision-of-broadband-definition-of-bhutan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bicma.gov.bt\/?p=9065","title":{"rendered":"Notification: Revision of Broadband Definition of Bhutan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In pursuant to the Government Technology Agency\u2019s policy directive vide GovTech\/DoTS\/40(5)\/2024-2025\/2222 dated 7th May 2025, the Bhutan InfoComm and Media Authority revises the entry level broadband definition in Bhutan to 5 Megabits per second (Mbps), which means the entry-level broadband in Bhutan should have an internet connection that offers a minimum download speed of 5Mbps.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Therefore, the broadband definition, established under the \u201cBhutan Telecommunications and Broadband Policy 2014\u201d, section 5 (B) (1) shall be revised from initial 512 Kilobits per second (Kbps) to 5 Megabits per second (Mbps) as an entry level broadband in Bhutan.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In pursuant to the Government Technology Agency\u2019s policy directive vide GovTech\/DoTS\/40(5)\/2024-2025\/2222 dated 7th May 2025, the Bhutan InfoComm and Media Authority revises the entry level broadband definition in Bhutan to 5 Megabits per second (Mbps), which means the entry-level broadband&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bicma.gov.bt\/?p=9065\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bicma.gov.bt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9065"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bicma.gov.bt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bicma.gov.bt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bicma.gov.bt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bicma.gov.bt\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9065"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bicma.gov.bt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9067,"href":"https:\/\/www.bicma.gov.bt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9065\/revisions\/9067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bicma.gov.bt\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bicma.gov.bt\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bicma.gov.bt\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}