The 3G and 4G mobile phone data services resumed on Friday morning after they were suspended across the country for around 10 hours.

Zakir Hossain Khan, senior assistant director of Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission, told the agency that the 3G and 4G data services were resumed at about 8:00am.

Following the directives of the commission, mobile phone operators resumed the data services in the morning.

Earlier, the regulatory commission asked all mobile phone operators to suspend the 3G and 4G data services across the country on Thursday night ahead of Sunday’s elections.

The move came following instructions from the Election Commission to slow down the mobile internet speed.

The regulatory body later sent a letter to the mobile phone companies asking them to implement the directive immediately.