Over 65 Lakh SIM Users Left Dhaka in 2 Days before Eid: Minister

Over 65 lakh subscriber identity module users left Dhaka on July 8 and July 9 to celebrate Eid-ul-Azha with their near and dear ones at their ancestral homes.

A total of 65,78,866 SIM subscribers of different mobile phone operators left the capital in the two days before Eid, Bangladesh posts, telecommunications and IT minister Mustafa Jabbar said in a Facebook post on Monday.

He also shared a chart provided by the mobile operators that showed 35,30,732 subscribers left the capital on July 8 and 30,48,134 on July 9.

Of them, 34,48,012 were Grameenphone users, 15, 45,109 Robi users, 14,17,114 Banglalink users and 168,631 Teletalk users.

Source: UNB