Bangladesh adds 1.38 million mobile phone users in March

Bangladesh mobile phone operators added 1.38 million new subscribers in March, lifting the user base to 38.93 million in one of Asia's fastest growing cellular markets, telecoms regulator data showed on Wednesday.
The number of mobile users rose nearly 58 percent in 2007 to 34.4 million, the Bangladesh Telecom Regulatory Commission said, helped by competitive tariffs and cheap handsets. Six cellphone providers in the impoverished country of over 140 million people registered 1.13 million customers in February. Several market surveys have forecast the number of mobile phone users will be around 50 million at the end of 2009.