The second largest mobile phone operator in Bangladesh Banglalink Their company has decided to change the name. BTRC Chairman Sunil Kanti Bose said this yesterday. He was speaking to reporters after a meeting between NBR and BTRC with Finance Minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhith SaidBanglalink has decided to change the name at their board meeting. That was also discussed at the meeting. ”

The new name of the company will be ‘Banglalink Digital Communications Limited’ instead of the previous name ‘Orascom Telecom Bangladesh Limited’; However, the brand name of the product and other such issues will not change.

Orascom Telecom Holdings of Egypt Banglalink At present the number of subscribers is about 26 million 7 thousand which is about 28 percent of the total number of subscribers in the country. The Netherlands-based Wimpelcom, the parent company of Orascom, is now the sixth largest mobile operator in the world in terms of subscribers.

You may have noticed earlier that in the past, the logo of Banglalink had a small caption ‘An ORASCOM TELECOM company’, which was removed last year.

In 2004 Orascom started business under the Banglalink brand in 2005 after buying a complete stake in Seba Telecom. As such, the name of the company is going to be changed in the second phase.