Mobile operators sold more than 1.6 million subscriber identification module (SIM) cards in October than September in 2016.
This indicates the number of active mobile connections have increased in the later part of the past year after the government launched mandatory biometric re-registration of SIMs, says a report of Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission.
According to the report, the number of internet subscribers has also increased in the country.
The process of bio-metric re-registration reduced the number of active mobile phone connections dropped to 117 million from 132.6 million before the re-registration process started.
At present the number of active connections is more than 120 million.
Among the mobile phone operators, Grameenphone sold the highest number of SIMs. It has 55.7 million active subscribers.
Airtel merged with Robi and the number of its subscribers is 24.4 million.
Banglalink has around 30 million subscribers and Teletalk has more than 2.8 million subscribers.
Source: http://en.prothom-alo.com/science-technology/news/136811/SIM-sale-rises-again