Digital inclusion and mobile sector taxation in Bangladesh 2015

Since the award of the first licence in 1989, the mobile sector in Bangladesh has enabled 66 million Bangladeshis to gain access to transformative mobile technologies, including the mobile internet. The increase in mobile access has brought a wide range of benefits to the Bangladeshi economy and society, including increased productivity and economic growth. Further increasing access to mobile has the potential to further accelerate Bangladesh’s economic and social development towards the government’s objectives of “Digital Bangladesh” and its wider Vision 2021 objectives, which include reaching middle-income country status in the next six years.