The number of mobile subscribers in the country crossed 6.5 crore mark in September while the state-run operator Teletalk netted a few subscribers in the month after steady fall in the company’s subscriber base in the previous three months.
The active mobile subscriber base in the country reached 65.14 million or 6.51 crore at the end of September as the six mobile operators added 1.67 million subscribers in September, according to the data released by the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission on Tuesday.
The number of active subscribers was 63.46 million at the end of August after the subscriber base crossed 6 crore-mark for the first time in July.
Teletalk added around 0.06 million subscribers in September to take its
client base to 1.18 million in the month after the
company lost subscribers for three consecutive months, June to August, as many of the clients had switched to other operators.
Leading operator Grameenphone’s subscriber base reached 28.65 million at the end of September as it added 0.73 million clients in the month.
Banglalink, the second largest operator, added around 0.56 million clients to take its subscriber base to around 18.11 million while the total number of Robi subscribers reached to 11.71 million enlisting some 0.23 million new clients.
Warid Telecom added 0.16 million subscribers taking the total number to 3.58 million while the lone CDMA operator CityCell lost around 0.07 million customers taking its subscriber base to around 1.91 million.
The total number of mobile subscribers was 34.37 million at the end of 2007, 44.64 million in 2008 and 52.43 million in 2009.
Mobile operators said that although the number of subscribers had passed 6.5 crore, the number of people using mobile phone would be less as many of the subscribers use services of multiple operators.
