As Citycell, Bangladesh’s oldest mobile phone operator failed to pay it’s due the government will start the process of shutting it down from Wednesday.
Citycell’s due amount totals up to around Tk 477.51 crore.
State Minister for Telecom Tarana Halim made the announcement at a press conference held at her ministry office on Tuesday afternoon.
“Citycell has defaulted on its dues with the government despite several remainders and so we reached the decision,” she said.
She asked all subscribers of the mobile phone operators to switch to any other operators by August 23.
Earlier, the subscribers of Citycell have been asked to switch to any other operator by August 16.
“We have extended the timeframe to switch to another operator considering sufferings of the subscribers,” the state minister said.
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