Dhaka, Bangladesh (BBN) - The number of mobile subscribers in Bangladesh crossed 65 million in September this year, telecom regulator said.
The active mobile subscriber base in the country reached 65.14 million at the end of September as the six mobile operators added 1.67 million subscribers in the month, , according to the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission statistics.
The number of active subscribers was 63.46 million at the end of August after the subscriber base crossed 60million -mark for the first time in July.
Although the number of subscribers had passed 65 million, the number of people using mobile phone would be less as many of the subscribers use services of multiple operators, mobile operators said.
Grameenphone subscriber base reached 28.65 million at the end of September as it added 0.73 million clients in the month.
Banglalink 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.
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.
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.
BBN/SSR/SI-21Oct10-11:44 am (BST)