DHAKA, June 28 (Xinhua) -- The total number of Bangladesh's mobile phone subscribers hit 150 million at the end of May with addition of 5.61 million new users in the first 5 months of the year, statistics of the country's telecom regulator showed Thursday.

According to data from the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC), the number of subscribers in the country reached 150.727 million in May.

Bangladesh has now four mobile companies, three of them are foreign-backed cellphone operators.

According to the statistics of the country's telecom regulator, the number of Bangladesh's mobile phone subscribers was 145.114 million at the end of December 2017.