The total number of Bangladesh's mobile phone subscribers reached over 156 million at the end of October 2018 with addition of 11.35 million new users in the first 10 months of this year, statistics of the country's telecom regulator showed recently.

According to data from the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC), the number of subscribers in the country reached 156.469 million in October.

Bangladesh has four mobile companies, three of which are foreign-backed cellphone operators.

The number of subscribers of the mobile operators, Grameenphone, Robi Axiata, Banglalink and state-run Teletalk stood at 72.005 million, 47.162 million, 33.809 million and 3.493 million respectively at the end of October, BTRC data showed.

According to the statistics of the country's telecom regulator, the number of Bangladesh's mobile phone subscribers was 145.114 million at the end of last year.