Md Juel, CU Correspondent :
Chittagong University students and teachers are deprived of modern WIFI services for long as nine WIFI routers out of sixteen around the campus became obsolete for over six months.
Side by side, due to the slow pace of the internet browsing, the students and teachers have lost their interests to internet based research and higher study and became agitated; alleging the university authority fraudulently deceived the students in the name of WIFI services.
University sources said, Bangladesh University Grants Commission (UGC) under its Higher Education and Quality Enhancement Project (HEQEP), sponsored from World Bank, set up Campus Wide Optical Fiber Network in 16 zones of the varsity on August 21, 2014, which was inaugurated by then Vice-Chancellor Prof Dr Anowarul Azim Arif.
The WiFi services include the all residential halls of the students, Saheed Minar, CUCSU Bhaban, Zero point, Administrative Bhavan, central library, several faculties where teachers and students just get access to the WIFI services in limited zone, nearer to the WIFI router.
Meanwhile, the teachers alleged that they found internet speed 100-150 kbps in central library though the university run the WIFI services at 1 Mbps and that why the researching and study halted due to the lower speed of the internet.
On condition of anonymity, an official working in the administrative building alleged `Where we have only 100 kbps internet speed, there the students get lower than that of us’. Refat Quader, a fourth year student of Accounting department told this correspondent, we just get internet just as professed but we are fully deprived of modern internet services.
It is alleged that, the routers, the administration set up in the campus, were low cost and low quality though the routers were shown buying at high cost where a total of 25 million tk were allotted for WIFI connection.
Meanwhile, few days later, the WIFI routers started spoiling and the students repeatedly demanded to the administration to enhance the internet speed and set up quality routers, alleging the internet services just limit 1000 square meters and the WIFI connection could not reach at any room of the dormitories.
CU acting registrar Dr Kamrul Huda said, the concerned authority was asked to scrutiny the matter and to take action to enhance the WIFI services.
