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Grameenphone faces SIM crisis

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Published: 10:52, 4 February 2020   Update: 15:18, 26 July 2020
Grameenphone faces SIM crisis

Country’s top mobile phone operator Grameenphone is going to face major crisis from next week.

Grameenphone Head of External Communication Md Hassan confirmed the news to risingbd over mobile phone on Tuesday.

He said we have no SIM in stock. Retailers have some SIMs for sale. But one all the SIMs would be sold out, no SIMs would be available until Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) withdraws the embargo on issuance of new SIMs.

Grameenphone Chief Executive Officer Yasir Azman said at present, there is a demand of 50,000 new SIMs every day. But we can't provide those as BTRC stalled issuing non-objection certificates (NOC’s) to GP mid of last year.

He further said BTRC allocated us 0130 and 0131 number series, each with 10 million slots, after we exhausted a total of 100 million slots of 017 series. But we have already sold the allocated numbers of the 0130 and 0131 codes. There are no new SIMs in the company.

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