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Mobile service to be costlier in Bangladesh

Xinhua, June 4, 2015 Adjust font size:

Bangladeshi people will have to shell out more from the next fiscal year 2015-16 starting from July for using mobile phones and buying new SIM cards as the government plans to impose supplementary duty on the services.

In his budget speech, Bangladeshi Finance Minister AMA Muhith Thursday said, "I propose to impose 5 percent supplementary duty on the services provided through SIM and RUIM card of mobile phone. "

Also, the minister has proposed to impose 400 taka for SIM card issuance and 200 taka for SIM card replacement.

Currently, the issuance of a SIM card cost 300 taka and replacement 100 taka. (1 U.S. dollar equals 78 taka) Endi