AMTOB gets new president

Supun Weerasinghe, managing director and CEO of Robi, has been elected president of Association of Mobile Telecom Operators of Bangladesh or AMTOB, a platform of carriers.

The election was held at the association's annual general meeting on September 20 in Dhaka.

Weerasinghe replaces AMTOB's outgoing president Ziad Shatara, CEO of Banglalink.

Airtel's Chief Executive PD Sarma was elected senior vice-president of AMTOB and Grameenphone's CEO Rajeev Sethi was elected vice-president, the association said in a statement.

The executive council appointed TIM Nurul Kabir as the secretary-general and CEO of AMTOB. AMTOB is a national trade body representing all mobile telecom operators in Bangladesh.

Grameenphone, Banglalink, Robi, Airtel, Citycell and Teletalk are the members of AMTOB, and Huawei and Ericsson are associate members.