A parliamentary standing committee yesterday stressed the need for increasing more market share by the state-owned Teletalk in the mobile sector of the country.
The standing committee of public undertakings in its fifth meeting held in the parliament building asked the lone state-owned mobile phone operator to invest more on network expansion and also spend more for advertisement purpose.
The meeting was presided over by the committee chairman Col (Retd.) Shawakat Ali.
“We’ve found that the committee is showing more pragmatic attitude towards us as they are well-informed about our limitations and at the same time it wanted to help us in getting more market shares,” Gias Udding Ahmed, acting managing director of Teletalk, who attended the meeting, told the Dhaka Tribune.
Currently, Teletalk has obtained 3.08% market share with 35.95 lakh active subscribers after June 2014, according to the statistic of the telecom regulator.
Market leader Grameephone has 42.24% market shares with 4.92 crore active subscribers, while Banglalink grabs 25.53%, Robi has 20.61%, Airtel has 7.33% and Citycell has 1.22% market shares.
During the meeting, the committee member urged the Teletalk management to increase more market share to establish control over the market as soon as possible.
After discussing different corruption-related issues, published in the newspapers, the committee asked the public companies to submit their reports to the standing committee after proper investigation.