Bangladesh's cellphone companies in the first half of this year saw nearly 5 million new users to take the country's total subscribers base to 161.772 million at the end of June, statistics of the country's telecom regulator showed Tuesday.
According to data from the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC), the country's four phone operators added 4.783 million new users in January-June period.
Of the total, the BTRC data showed the companies added 0.943 million new subscribers in June.
Bangladesh has currently four mobile companies, three of which are foreign-backed cellphone operators.
The number of subscribers of the mobile operators, Grameenphone, Robi Axiata, Banglalink and Teletalk stood at 75.330 million, 47.939 million, 34.667 million and 3.836 million respectively at the end of June, BTRC data showed.
According to the statistics of the country's telecom regulator, the number of Bangladesh's mobile phone subscribers was 156.989 million at the end of December 2018.
Source: http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-08/27/c_138342709.htm