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Banglalink Digital Communications Ltd., Trade name Banglalink (); formerly Sheba Telecom Pvt. Ltd. is a Veon Group owned telecommunications company headquartered in Gulshan Avenue, Dhaka. It is the third-largest mobile network operator in Bangladesh and a fully owned subsidiary of Veon Group. The majority of Veon shares are owned by Luxembourg-based LetterOne, which was founded by Russian-Israeli tycoon and oligarch Mikhail Fridman.
Banglalink attained 1 million subscribers by December 2005, and 3 million subscribers by October 2006. In less than two years, by December 2007, Banglalink overtook Airtel (now Robi) to become the second-largest operator in Bangladesh behind Grameenphone with more than 7.1 million customers.
Banglalink had 1.03 million connections until December 2005. The number of Banglalink users increased by 257% and stood at 3.64 million at the end of 2006, making it the fastest-growing operator in the world of that year. In August 2006, Banglalink became the first company to provide free incoming calls from BTTB for both postpaid and prepaid connections. On 20 August 2008, Banglalink got past the landmark of a 10 million subscriber base. As of 2023, Banglalink had a subscriber base of ~43.48 million. Banglalink Integrated Annual Report 2023 - Banglalink website, page 8
In July 2004, an Egypt-based company, Orascom Telecom (currently Global Telecom Holding), purchased Sheba Telecom and formed Banglalink brand, as sheba telecom failed to tap the business potentials in Bangladesh mainly due to a chronic feud between its Malaysian and Bangladeshi partners. The purchasing value was US$60 million, of which US$50 million for share value and US$10 million was for financial debt.
Integrated Services Ltd. (ISL), the Bangladeshi partner, was being 'officially' shown as purchasing the shares held by Technology Resources Industries (TRI) of Malaysia for $15 million. ISL then paid another $10 million to Standard Chartered Bank to settle Sheba's liabilities.
In September 2004, Orascom Telecom Holdings (currently Global Telecom Holding) purchased 100% of the shares of Sheba Telecom (Pvt.) Limited. It was acquired for US$60 million. Sheba had a base of 59,000 users, of whom 49,000 were regular when it was sold. Afterward it was re-branded and launched its services under the " Banglalink" brand on 10 February 2005.
In March 2008, Sheba Telecom (Pvt.) Limited changed its name to Orascom Telecom Bangladesh Limited, matching its parent company name.
In July 2013, following the 2011 ownership restructuring in the parent company, the company name changed for the second time to Banglalink Digital Communications Ltd.
In 2018, Netherlands based Veon Ltd (previously known as Vimpelcom) acquired Banglalink as wholly owned subsidiary.
In 2024 Banglalink sold out its tower assets to Summit Towers Ltd.
For General Subscribers
+88019N1N2N3N4N5N6N7N8 & +88014N1N2N3N4N5N6N7N8
For IoT Subscribers +88061N1N2N3N4N5N6N7N8
Where '+880' is the ISD code for Bangladesh and is needed only in case of dialing from outside Bangladesh.
'19', '14' & '61' are the access codes for Banglalink as allocated by the Government of Bangladesh. Omitting +880 will require using 0 in place of it instead to represent local call, hence 019 & 014 are the general access codes. 061 is the IoT access code. N1N2N3N4N5N6N7N8 is the subscriber number.
In 2018, when mobile number portability was introduced, users acquired the ability to port to any operator without changing its number.
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