January 05, 2008

Cellphone subscriptions reach 33.1m until November, 2007

The total number of mobile phone subscribers of the country's six cellphone operators has reached 33.10 million at the end of November 2007.

According to the latest update by the website of Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC), Grameenphone Ltd leads the subscriber mark with 16.01 million users followed by AKTEL with 6.53 million and Sheba Telecom Ltd (Banglalink) with 6.51 million.

The newcomer, Warid Telecom International LLC (Warid), was placed in the fourth position as it bagged 1.95 million subscribers followed by CityCell with 1.38 million and state-run Teletalk with 0.72 million.

The subscribers' numbers were declared by the mobile phone operators themselves, according to the BTRC website.

Source: BTRC Website, January 1, 2008.

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