Massive mobile growth is reported from Bangladesh in 2006, with over two million being added in September alone, according to the BTRC. The question now is whether Pakistan still leads the pack.
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|
Mobiles |
Net addition/month |
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Jan-06 |
10,275,869 |
|
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Feb-06 |
10,543,898 |
268,029 |
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Mar-06 |
10,954,285 |
410,387 |
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Apr-06 |
11,781,560 |
827,275 |
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May-06 |
13,440,836 |
1,659,276 |
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Jun-06 |
14,190,606 |
749,770 |
|
Jul-06 |
14,798,440 |
607,834 |
|
Aug-06 |
15,510,000 |
711,560 |
|
Sep-06 |
17,647,537 |
2,137,537 |
Bangladesh’s GrameenPhone tops 10 mln subscribers | Reuters.com
Bangladesh’s top mobile phone operator GrameenPhone Ltd. said on Sunday the number of its subscribers has passed 10 million, rising more than 80 percent since January.
The number of mobile phone users in Bangladesh will grow to 50 million during the three years to 2009, Erik Aas, managing director of GrameenPhone, told a news conference.
“Reduced entry cost for new subscribers will be the main driver for this growth. This can be achieved with lower handset prices and reduced connection taxes,” Aas said.
He said GrameenPhone’s client network was expected to expand to 20 million over the next one and a half years. GrameenPhone is majority-owned by Norway’s Telenor.
At the beginning of 2006, GrameenPhone’s subscribers totalled 5.5 million, company officials said.
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Abu Saeed Khan
India and Pkistan maintained leadership in adding new customers during the 2Q .
GrameenPhone’s largest ever quarterly intake has sequentially elevated Bangladesh from eighth position to fifth position in the mobile market of Asia Pacific region during this year’s second quarter, according to London-based research farm Informa.
In the first quarter, from January to March, GrameenPhone contributed 885,000 customers to the total of 1.265 million mobile users. It made Bangladesh eighth in terms of quarterly net addition in the Asia Pacific region.
China (17.9 million), India (14.5 million), Pakistan (5.6 million), Indonesia (3.2 million), Vietnam (2.04 million), Japan (1.7 million) and Malaysia (1.4 million) were ahead of Bangladesh at that time.
In the second quarter, from April to June, GrameenPhone alone bagged two million customers while its competitors added 1.70 million, making gross national total of 3.70 million mobile subscribers.
GrameenPhone’s 250 percent sequential growth has lifted Bangladesh to fifth position beating Vietnam (3.54 million), Malaysia (1.25 million) and Japan (1.06 million) during Q2 of 2006. I, however, don’t have the 3Q data as yet.