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Bangladesh's mobile phone subscriber number falls to 131.376 mln

Xinhua, August 10, 2016 Adjust font size:

A latest report of Bangladesh's telecom regulator has reveals the country's mobile phone subscriber numbers have fallen to 131.376 million in June, down some 3 million from December last year.

Statistics of the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) showed Tuesday that the number of subscribers of the six operators in the country reached 131.376 million in June this year.

The number of users declined as the operators saw a massive dip in their active users after they have started registering the biometric data of the users.

The Bangladeshi government in April extended the deadline for biometric re-registration of mobile phone SIM cards by a month that ended on May 31.

The total number of Bangladesh's mobile phone subscribers reached about 134 million at the end of December 2015 with additional 13.37 million new users last year.

At the end of 2015, the number of subscribers of Grameenphone, Banglalink, Robi Axiata, Airtel, Citycell which faces "closure" and Teletalk stood at 56.679 million, 32.865 million, 28.317 million, 10.710 million, 1.007 million and 4.143 million respectively, the BTRC data showed.

However, latest data showed the number of subscribers of the mobile operators -- Grameenphone, Banglalink, Robi Axiata, Airtel, Citycell and Teletalk -- at the end of June this year stood at 56.909 million, 31.941 million, 27.442 million, 9.892 million, 0.702 million and 4.490 million, respectively. Endit