This article is about the mobile network operator in Bangladesh. For Warid Telecom International, see Warid Telecom.
Warid Telecom
Native name
ওয়ারিদ টেলিকম
Company type
Private
Industry
Telecommunication
Founded
December 2005; 18 years ago (2005-12)
Defunct
December 20, 2010 (2010-12-20)
Fate
Rebranded to Airtel[1]
Successor
Airtel Bangladesh & Then Airtel Bangladesh merged into Robi Axiata Limited
Headquarters
House 34, Road 19/A, Banani,
Dhaka
,
Bangladesh
Key people
Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan (Chairman)
Muneer Farooqui (CEO)
[2][3]
Products
Telephony, EDGE, GSM
Parent
Warid Telecom
Website
waridtel.com.bd
Warid (Arabic: وريد Bengali: ওয়ারিদ) was a GSM based mobile network operator in Bangladesh. It entered into Bangladeshi telecommunication industry as the sixth mobile carrier. It commenced commercial operations on May 10, 2007.[citation needed]
Warid Telecom, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Abu Dhabi Group, offered mobile telephony service with a subscriber base of over 2.9 million in Bangladesh.[4]
^"Bharti to roll out 3G in Bangladesh, rebrand ops". The Economic Times. Retrieved 2016-03-18.
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