Banglalink

Banglalink Digital Communications Ltd.
Company typeSubsidiary
IndustryTelecommunications
FoundedFebruary 2005; 19 years ago (2005-02)[1]
Headquarters
Dhaka
,
Bangladesh
Area served
Bangladesh
Products
RevenueIncrease US$500 million (2020)[citation needed] parent = VEON (100%)[2]
Websitewww.banglalink.net[3]
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Banglalink Digital Communications Ltd., d.b.a. Banglalink (Bengali: বাংলালিংক; formerly Sheba Telecom (Pvt.) Ltd.) is a Dutch-owned telecommunications company headquartered in Gulshan-1, Dhaka. It is the third-largest mobile network operator in Bangladesh and a fully-owned company of Telecom Ventures Ltd., a 100% owned subsidiary of Global Telecom Holding Ltd. VEON owns 51.9% shares of Global Telecom Holding following a business combination between VEON Ltd. and Wind Telecom S.p.A. in April 2011.

Banglalink attained 1 million subscribers by December 2005, and 3 million subscribers by October 2006. In less than two years, by December 2007, Banglalink overtook Aktel (now Robi) to become the second-largest operator in Bangladesh behind Grameenphone with more than 7.1 million customers.

Banglalink had 1.03 million connections until December 2005. The number of Banglalink users increased by 257%[5] and stood at 3.64 million at the end of 2006, making it the fastest-growing operator in the world of that year. In August 2006, Banglalink became the first company to provide free incoming calls from BTTB for both postpaid and prepaid connections. On 20 August 2008, Banglalink got past the landmark of a 10 million subscriber base.[6] As of August 2021, Banglalink has a subscriber base of 36.90 million.

  1. ^ "About Banglalink". Banglalink. Archived from the original on 26 September 2017.
  2. ^ "About Us Banglalink". Retrieved 29 August 2024.
  3. ^ License Summary of 4G/LTE Cellular Mobile Phone Operators: https://web.archive.org/web/20220924163625/https://btrc.portal.gov.bd/sites/default/files/files/btrc.portal.gov.bd/page/930b96b7_8cce_46c7_b307_00b83f3a4a23/2022-02-24-09-45-ba427a6369a53abbca6a0679934dde01.pdf
  4. ^ "Chief Executive Officer". Archived from the original on 7 September 2018. Retrieved 24 May 2017.
  5. ^ About Banglalink
  6. ^ "Bangladesh's Banglalink tops 10 mln mobile users". Reuters. Retrieved 17 July 2015.