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$1.54
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Dense population means broad 4G; 5G nascent.
Bangladesh runs mainly on 4G, with 5G just beginning: Grameenphone and Robi launched 5G in September 2025 in limited urban areas, while Banglalink and Teletalk have not. For travellers, 4G is what you will use almost everywhere. Grameenphone has the widest reach, including the best rural availability at around 75%, and is the only network reliably reaching remote areas like the Bandarban Hill Tracts. Robi leads on 5G speed in the cities. Coverage is solid across Dhaka, Chattogram and Cox's Bazar, but thins out in the hill tracts and deep rural areas where Grameenphone is the safe bet.
Typical local SIM: $Very cheap: data packs start at a few dollars. Local prices are far below travel-eSIM rates.. Usually sold at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (Dhaka) counters and operator centres in the cities. Bangladesh requires SIM registration, so bring your passport. There is a legal limit of 15 active SIMs per person.. Bangladesh sees few independent tourists, so English-language tourist SIM service is less polished than in Thailand or Sri Lanka. Registration is mandatory and needs your passport. A travel eSIM skips the paperwork and works on landing, which many short-trip and business visitors prefer. For travel into the hill tracts or rural areas, Grameenphone is the network that actually reaches.
For a typical short or business trip, a travel eSIM is the no-friction pick: land online, skip the registration. For longer stays or travel into the hill tracts, a local Grameenphone SIM gives the widest coverage at very low cost.
The largest operator (a Telenor subsidiary) with the widest coverage, including the best rural 4G reach at around 75% availability. The only network reported to work in remote areas like the Bandarban Hill Tracts. Launched 5G in September 2025. The safest all-round choice for travel beyond Dhaka.
The second-largest operator (Axiata) and the 5G download speed leader in the January 2026 Opensignal report. Strong in cities and good for data-heavy use in Dhaka and Chattogram. Rural reach is narrower than Grameenphone.
Owned by VEON, popular with younger and heavy-data users for its cheap packs and solid urban 4G. No 5G yet, and the weakest rural coverage of the big three. Fine for a city-only trip.
you want to land in Dhaka connected without dealing with mandatory SIM registration in a market where tourist SIM service is less traveller-oriented than its neighbours.
you stay a while and want the very low local data prices, and you do not mind the passport registration. For the hill tracts, a Grameenphone SIM is the network that reaches.
No first-hand measurement has been published for Bangladesh yet. This page will update automatically when a validated field test is added to the shared dataset.
Price per GB is the median of mid-tier plans from the live Bangladesh catalogue. Network and transparency indicators come from the shared Drift dataset and are refreshed monthly.
Field measurements are published only after validation. Open dataset: data-asia.json.
Figures updated August 2026. Dataset license: CC BY 4.0.