Robi today announced that it will invest Tk 2.5 crore on the digital start-ups who will make their way to the top of flagship digital entrepreneurship competition r-ventures 3.0.

The announcement came at a press conference organised at Sheraton hotel in Dhaka to celebrate the mobile network operator's 25th anniversary of operation.

"Since our inception, we have made close to Tk 30,000 crore as capex investment, and contributed close to Tk 39,000 crore to the govt exchequer," Robi CEO Rajeev Sethi said at the event.

"Our sprawling business operation around the country supports more than 100,000 jobs now. Hence, our future is deeply entrenched in the future wellbeing of the country," he added.

He said 50.9 per cent of Robi's total subscribers of 5.44 crore are now 4G users, and 67.3 per cent of the operator's data users are 4G users.

Robi also has 4.11 crore data users in its network, he said.

Robi claimed that it has brought 98.2 per cent of the population under 4G coverage with more than 15,219 4G sites.