Grameenphone, the market leader mobile phone operator in the country, is going to declare that it has covered the 3G network in all 64 districts of the country as the first operator.
The announement will come officially on Sunday evening at a press conference at a hotel in the capital.
Grameenphone’s CEO Vivek Sood will be present on the occasion with other high officials.
A top official of the operator has confirmed about the matter.
“Our third generation (3G) has reached all the 64 districts in the country last week and subscribers are enjoying fastest data through it,” the official told the Dhaka Tribune on Sunday requesting anonymity.
According to 3G guideline, there is a network expansion obligation and the leading operator took one sixth time for cover all the districts of the timeline, he also informed.
Earlier, Grameenphone has taken 10 megahertz spectrum for 3G auction on September 8 and awarded license very next week of that.
They started test run from September 18 in different places in the capital and launched 3G commercially from first week of October.
Before that they had a commitment with their subscribers that they will reach all the 64 districts within April but before that they have done it.
According to the 3G guideline license, owned operators need to rollout 3G networks all the 64 districts within 36 months but Grameenphone done it within six months.
State owned operator Teletalk running 3G before one year than Grameenphone only covers 17 districts.
Airtel covers nine districts, while Banglalink covers five districts with 3G service.
Robi also took 3G license, but network deployment is slow than others.