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Pacific Bangladesh Telecom Limited

83 employees

Pacific Bangladesh Telecom Limited, doing business as Citycell (Bengali: সিটিসেল) was the oldest mobile operator of Bangladesh. It was 1st mobile operator company in Bangladesh and pioneer telecommunications network companies in South Asia along with Etisalat of Sri Lanka and Paktel of Pakistan. It was the only mobile operator in the country using CDMA and EVDO technology. Citycell's total mobile subscriber base was 0.142 million as of August 2016. Citycell was owned by SingTel (44.54%), Pacific Motors (37.95%) and Far East Telecom (17.51%). It was the smallest mobile operator of Bangladesh in terms of subscribers. It was shut down due to failure of paying dues as ordered by the BTRC in 20 October 2016.

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Industry

Telecommunications

Sectors

Telecommunications

Date founded

1989

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