Economic Reporter :
Largest mobile phone operator of the country, Grameenphone is going to introduce 3G services for all the base stations.
Grameenphone Ltd. decided that 100 per cent of its existing 10,000 base stations across the country will support 3G services by June 2016.
Grameenphone has in total more than 5,500 stations, which have already been converted to 3G since the service was introduced in late 2013.
Grameenphone Chief Executive Officer Rajeev Sethi made the announcement while addressing a programme at a city hotel on Tuesday.
Telenor Group Chief Executive Officer Sigve Brekke was present on the accasion.
Rajeev Sethi highlighted the network growth in 2015. He said that 3401 3G stations were added to the network in 2015 taking GP’s total 3G sites across Bangladesh to 5,831 at the close of the year.
“We have made significant investment in 2015 and it is our intention to continue on with this momentum and add nearly 1700 more 3G sites by the end of the first quarter of this year,” Sethi said. “The addition will reach 3G services to nearly 90% of its subscriber base in that time,” he added.
Grameenphone had announced its alignment with the Group’s digital ambition to take Internet for all after the introduction of 3G in Bangladesh. Since then the GP has quantified its ambition to acquire 50 million data customers on the GP network by 2019. As of the third quarter, there are more than 15.2 million data users on the GP network.
