DHAKA, April 17 (Xinhua) -- The total number of Bangladesh's mobile phone subscribers reached nearly 149 million at the end of February with addition of 3.66 million new users in the first two months of the year, statistics of the country's telecom regulator showed Tuesday.

According to Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) data, the number of subscribers in the country reached 148.769 million in February.

Bangladesh has now four mobile companies, three of whom including Grameenphone, Robi and Banglalink are foreign-backed cellphone operators.

The number of subscribers of the mobile operators, Grameenphone, Robi Axiata, Banglalink and Teletalk stood at 66.466 million, 45.595 million, 32.720 million and 3.988 million respectively at the end of February, BTRC data showed.

The total number of Bangladesh's mobile phone subscribers reached nearly 145.114 million at the end of December 2017.