GrameenPhone Passes Subscriber Landmark

Bangladesh's GrameenPhone says that it has recently crossed the 5 million subscriber-mark milestone. The company more than doubled its subscriber-base during the first 10 months of the current year. GP started the year with nearly 2.4 million subscribers, reached 3 million in March and 4 million users only in September.

The Eid Sales Campaign in October received very good response from the market. EASY pre-paid, EASY Gold, djuice and other post-paid products were offered at very attractive prices. The sales campaign generated huge demand for the GP products.

"This is a remarkable achievement, considering we only had 4 million users in September," observed Erik Aas, the Managing Director of GrameenPhone. "All our customers appreciated the major tariff reductions from early October, and combined with the successful Eid campaign, we have seen a huge demand for all of the GP products".

"I welcome each and every one of the new GP users and thank them along with the existing valued subscribers for making GrameenPhone their preferred mobile phone service provider," the GP MD added. "GrameenPhone, on its part, is committed to maintain a quality network and provide good service."

Erik Aas also thanked the GP employees for their hard work and dedication towards the company. "Credit for this achievement goes to all members of the GP Family. We have significantly strengthened our coverage across the country, as well as our regional operations and customer service. We are now seeing good results from these efforts."

GrameenPhone presently commands 62% of the mobile phone market in the country. Nearly 80% of population has now been brought under the coverage of the GP network, which covers 400 upazilas of 61 districts."

Posted to the site on 15th November 2005