Warid Telecom (Bangladesh)

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Warid Telecom Bangladesh Pvt. Ltd.

Type	Private
Founded	2005
Headquarters	168, Gulshan Avenue, Gulshan 2, Dhaka 1212, Bangladesh
Key people	Sheikh Nahayan Mabarak Al Nahayan, Chairman Mr. Munir Farooqi, CEO
Industry	Telecommunication
Products	Telephony, EDGE, GSM
Slogan	We Care
Website	www.waridtel.com.bd

Warid Telecom Bangladesh Pvt Ltd. is a GSM-based cellular operator in Bangladesh. It is wholly owned subsidiary of Warid Telecom International LLC which is the part of an Abu Dhabhi based consortium led by His Highness Sheikh Nahayan Mabarak Al Nahayan.

In December 2005, Warid Telecom International LLC paid $50 million dollars(US) to obtain a GSM license from the BTRC and became the sixth mobile phone operator in Bangladesh.

16 is the prefix for Warid Bangladesh as allocated by the government of Bangladesh. Omitting +880 will require to use 0 in place of it instead to represent local call, hence 016 is the general prefix.

In a press conference on August 17th 2006, Warid announced that his network would be activated two months ahead of schedule, in October, 2006. Again in October, 2006 Warid Telecom put off the launch of its cellphone services in Bangladesh until June, 2007 after its major supplier Nokia walked out on an agreement over a payment dispute.^[1]

Warid had a soft launch at the end of January, 2007. It gave away complimentary subscriptions among a selected group of individuals, whos job was to make 'test calls' and the operator adjusted its network's quality based on their comments.

Recently it had been published in a Bangaldeshi daily that Warid will formally begin its nationwide mobile services no later than April.^[2].

Warid Telecom sales and customer services in Gulshan 2, Dhaka.

1 Numbering Scheme
2 Network Technology
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Numbering Scheme

Warid uses the following numbering scheme for its subscribers:

+ 880 16 N₁N₂N₃N₄N₅N₆N₇

where,

+880 is the International subscriber dialing code for Bangladesh.

(+880)16 is the code for Warid as assigned by the Government of Bangladesh.

[edit] Network Technology

Network	Status	Date
GSM900/1800	Live/Active	March, 2007

The network of Warid Bangladesh is currently alive under the name BGD 07. Most of Warid's nation wide GSM, network is managed by Ericsson with the exception of the eastern part of Bangladesh where the network is managed by Motorola.