The Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission’s data, released on Tuesday, showed that the number of active users of mobile phones rose to 59.98 million on 30 June this year from 46.29 million on 30 June last year. The operators added 1.52 million new subscribers in June this year.
An executive of a mobile company claimed that the number of subscribers would have been greater if the government had not imposed the tax of Tk 800 that they have to pay for each SIM.
Mobile operators claimed that they gave ‘subsidy’ to each new subscriber by selling every SIM at a price much below Tk 800, mainly because of the fierce competition between mobile companies.
The largest operator, Grameenphone, added 5.3 million subscribers in the just concluded financial year, and added 0.91 million consumers in June to take its total subscriber base to 26.46 million.
The total number of subscribers for Banglalink stood at 16.10 million at the end of the last fiscal year as the company added 5.06 million consumers in one year. It attracted 0.51 million subscribers in June.
The subscriber base of Robi, which was previously known as Aktel, reached 11.10 million at the end of June as it added 2.25 million subscribers in one year. It added 0.14 million subscribers in June.
Warid Telecom, the greater part of which was recently acquired by India’s Bharati Airtel, added 0.59 million subscribers in a year, and the total number of its subscribers reached 3.17 million at the end of the last financial year. The company added 0.09 million subscribers in June.
The subscriber base of City Cell, The lone CDMA mobile operator, reached 1.99 million as it added only 0.03 million subscribers in a year. There was no addition to company’s subscriber base in June this year.
Teletalk, the state-run mobile operator, added only 0.06 million subscribers in a year and its total number of subscribers was 1.16 million at the end of June. The number of active subscribers of the company declined by 0.03 million in June.
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