The number of active mobile internet connections crossed the six-crore mark in Bangladesh at the end of July, according to data released by the regulator yesterday.

The number of mobile internet connections reached 6.04 crore or 94.45 percent of the total internet connections of 6.39 crore in July, Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission said.

The number of active internet connections went up by 3.79 lakh in July. Of the total connections, fixed internet connections stood at 37.7 lakh and WiMAX at 1.08 lakh, which is continuously declining, BTRC said in a report.

Active mobile SIMs declined 1.9 percent to 12.89 crore in July, compared to the previous month.

The industry started feeling the impact of biometric re-registration, two months after the operators deactivated the unregistered SIMs, sector leaders said. Any SIM unused in the last 90 days is counted as an inactive connection.